{"product_id":"critical-essays-on-english-and-bengali-detective-fiction-9781793649577","title":"Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Phil Fitzsimmons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, Debayan Deb Barman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: BRITISH DETECTIVE FICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: From Secrecy to Knowledge: Detection and Literary Detectives in Dickens, Kyamalia Bairagya \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Heroine as Detective: Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Secret, Madhumita Biswas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Detection and Drawings: Sidney Paget’s Illustrations from Doyle’s Return of Sherlock Holmes, Deepali Yadav\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Feminization of the Science of Detection: Agatha Christie’s Unusual Detective-Partners, Amy Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the tradition of Detective Fictions, Sourav Banerjee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place: Reading Margery Allingham’s Novels, Jonathan Wilkins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Following Cordelia Gray: Gender ‘Suitability’ and Detective Fiction, Medha Bhadra Chowdhury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Time Past and Time Present: Reading Kate Atkinson’s Novels, Purnima Chakraborti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: P. D. James: Narratives Bubbling to the Surface, Anne K. B. Erickson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Interrogating the Agency of the ‘Partner in Crime’: The Sidekick as the Reader in Crime Fiction, Barnali Saha \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: AMERICAN HARD-BOILED FICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Dashiell Hammett: A Pinkerton Detective’s Fictional Sleuths, Robert McParland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Conflict, Desire and the City: Exploring Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, Neepa Sarkar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: BENGALI DETECTIVE FICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Assertive Heroes and Male Heterotopia: Revisiting Select Detective Fiction of Hemendra Kumar Roy, Stella Chitralekha Biswas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Nativizing Holmesian Tradition of Detective: A Reading of Select Stories of Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda, Abhinaba Chatterjee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: The Purloined Artefacts: Tracing Repetition Automatism in Satyajit Ray's “Joy Baba Felunath” and “Jahangirer Swarnamudra”, Ipsita Chakrabarty and Soham Roy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Detectives and father figures: A study of the metamorphosis of the Indian father figure with Ray’s ‘Feluda’, Gouri Parvathy V\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: The Glocalization of Detective Fiction by Satyajit Ray, Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4: DETECTIVE FILMS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Byomkesh Breaks Bad: Unravelling the Hidden Desires in Dibakar Banerjee’s Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, Kaustav Mukherjee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: Serial Detectives and Reverse Forensics: Cases of Literary and Filmic Red Dragon, Sheng-mei Ma\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042692202839,"sku":"9781793649577","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793649577.jpg?v=1750955209","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-essays-on-english-and-bengali-detective-fiction-9781793649577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}