Critical essays on English and Bengali detective fiction /
The book brings together three strains of detective fiction, British, American and Bengal. The essays explore varied aspects of detective fiction, offering new avenues of critical thought from a postcolonial perspective.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. British detective fiction
- From Secrecy to Knowledge: Detection and Literary Detectives in Dickens / Kyamalia Bairagya
- Heroine as Detective: Wilkie Collins's The Dead Secret / Madhumita Biswas
- Women as Victims of Abuse in Crime Fiction: Representations of Misogyny in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet / Karabi Barman
- Detection and Drawings: Sidney Paget's illustrations from Doyle's Return of Sherlock Holmes / Deepali Yadav
- Feminization of the Science of Detection: Agatha Christie's Unusual Detective Partners / Amy Lee
- Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the tradition of Detective Fictions / Sourav Banerjee
- A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place: Reading Margery Allingham's Novels / Jonathan Wilkins
- Following Cordelia Gray: Gender 'Suitability' and Detective Fiction / Medha Bhadra Chowdhury
- Time Past and Time Present: Reading Kate Atkinson's Novels / Purnima Chakraborti
- P.D. James: Narratives Bubbling to the Surface / Anne K. B. Erickson
- Interrogating the Agency of the 'Partner in Crime': The Sidekick as the Reader in Crime Fiction / Barnali Saha
- Part 2. American hard-boiled fiction
- Dashiell Hammett: A Pinkerton Detective's Fictional Sleuths / Robert McParland
- Conflict, Desire and the City: Exploring Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep / Neepa Sarkar
- Part 3. Bengali detective fiction
- Assertive Heroes and Male Heterotopia: Revisiting Select Detective Fiction of Hemendra Kumar Roy / Stella Chitralekha Biswas
- Nativizing Holmesian Tradition of Detective: A Reading of Select Stories of Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda / Abhinaba Chatterjee
- The Purloined Artefacts: Tracing Repetition Automatism in Satyajit Ray's 'Joy Baba Felunath' and 'Jahangirer Swarnamudra', Ipsita Chakrabarty and Soham Roy
- Detectives and father figures: A study of the metamorphosis of the Indian father figure with Ray's 'Feluda' / Gouri Parvathy V
- The Glocalization of Detective Fiction by Satyajit Ray / Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee
- Part 4. Detective films
- Byomkesh Breaks Bad: Unravelling the Hidden Desires in Dibakar Banerjee's Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! / Kaustav Mukherjee
- Serial Detectives and Reverse Forensics: Cases of Literary and Filmic Red Dragon / Sheng-mei Ma.