Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction
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Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction

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Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. BRITISH DETECTIVE FICTION
  7. From Secrecy to Knowledge
  8. Heroine as Detective
  9. The Victims of Abuse and Misogyny in Crime Fiction
  10. Detection and Drawings
  11. Feminization of the Science of Detection
  12. Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the Tradition of Detective Fictions
  13. A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place
  14. Following Cordelia Gray
  15. P. D. James
  16. Time Past and Time Present
  17. Interrogating the Agency of the “Partner in Crime”
  18. AMERICAN HARD-BOILED FICTION
  19. Dashiell Hammett
  20. Conflict, Desire and the City
  21. BENGALI DETECTIVE FICTION
  22. Assertive Heroes and Male Heterotopia
  23. Nativizing Holmesian Tradition of Detective
  24. The Purloined Artefacts
  25. The Glocalization of Detective Fiction by Satyajit Ray
  26. Detectives and Father Figures
  27. DETECTIVE FILMS
  28. Byomkesh Breaks Bad
  29. Serial Detectives and Reverse Forensics
  30. Index
  31. About the Contributors