Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction

Debayan Deb Barman

doi:10.5771/9781793649584

Summary

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, P.D.James, Kate Atkinson, and Margery Allingham. The second section is on American hard-boiled fiction with essays on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The third section is on Bengali detective fiction with essays on Hemendra Kumar Roy, Saradindu Bandyopadhay and Satyajit Ray. Together, these essays bring three strains of detective fiction into conversation to show the gradual postcolonial attempt of Bengali detective fiction to outgrow colonial influences and create an original and organic tradition of regional and vernacular detective fiction.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4957-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4958-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1. From Secrecy to Knowledge No access
2. Heroine as Detective No access
3. The Victims of Abuse and Misogyny in Crime Fiction No access
4. Detection and Drawings No access
5. Feminization of the Science of Detection No access
6. Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the Tradition of Detective Fictions No access
7. A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place No access
8. Following Cordelia Gray No access
9. P. D. James No access
10. Time Past and Time Present No access
11. Interrogating the Agency of the “Partner in Crime” No access
1. Dashiell Hammett No access
2. Conflict, Desire and the City No access
1. Assertive Heroes and Male Heterotopia No access
2. Nativizing Holmesian Tradition of Detective No access
3. The Purloined Artefacts No access
4. The Glocalization of Detective Fiction by Satyajit Ray No access
5. Detectives and Father Figures No access
1. Byomkesh Breaks Bad No access
2. Serial Detectives and Reverse Forensics No access
Index No access Pages 229 - 232
About the Contributors No access Pages 233 - 240