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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.
List of contents
Foreword by Phil Fitzsimmons
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Debayan Deb Barman
Part 1: BRITISH DETECTIVE FICTION
Chapter 1: From Secrecy to Knowledge: Detection and Literary Detectives in Dickens, Kyamalia Bairagya
Chapter 2: Heroine as Detective: Wilkie Collins's The Dead Secret, Madhumita Biswas
Chapter 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
Chapter 4: Detection and Drawings: Sidney Paget's Illustrations from Doyle's Return of Sherlock Holmes, Deepali Yadav
Chapter 5: Feminization of the Science of Detection: Agatha Christie's Unusual Detective-Partners, Amy Lee
Chapter 6: Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the tradition of Detective Fictions, Sourav Banerjee
Chapter 7: A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place: Reading Margery Allingham's Novels, Jonathan Wilkins
Chapter 8: Following Cordelia Gray: Gender 'Suitability' and Detective Fiction, Medha Bhadra Chowdhury
Chapter 9: Time Past and Time Present: Reading Kate Atkinson's Novels, Purnima Chakraborti
Chapter 10: P. D. James: Narratives Bubbling to the Surface, Anne K. B. Erickson
Chapter 11: Interrogating the Agency of the 'Partner in Crime': The Sidekick as the Reader in Crime Fiction, Barnali Saha
Part 2: AMERICAN HARD-BOILED FICTION
Chapter 12: Dashiell Hammett: A Pinkerton Detective's Fictional Sleuths, Robert McParland
Chapter 13: Conflict, Desire and the City: Exploring Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Neepa Sarkar
Part 3: BENGALI DETECTIVE FICTION
Chapter 14: Assertive Heroes and Male Heterotopia: Revisiting Select Detective Fiction of Hemendra Kumar Roy, Stella Chitralekha Biswas
Chapter 15: Nativizing Holmesian Tradition of Detective: A Reading of Select Stories of Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda, Abhinaba Chatterjee
Chapter 16: The Purloined Artefacts: Tracing Repetition Automatism in Satyajit Ray's "Joy Baba Felunath" and "Jahangirer Swarnamudra", Ipsita Chakrabarty and Soham Roy
Chapter 17: Detectives and father figures: A study of the metamorphosis of the Indian father figure with Ray's 'Feluda', Gouri Parvathy V
Chapter 18: The Glocalization of Detective Fiction by Satyajit Ray, Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee
Part 4: DETECTIVE FILMS
Chapter 19: Byomkesh Breaks Bad: Unravelling the Hidden Desires in Dibakar Banerjee's Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, Kaustav Mukherjee
Chapter 20: Serial Detectives and Reverse Forensics: Cases of Literary and Filmic Red Dragon, Sheng-mei Ma
About the author
Edited by Debayan Deb Barman - Foreword by Phil Fitzsimmons - Contributions by Kyamalia Bairagya; Sourav Banerjee; Debayan Deb Barman; Nisarga Bhattacharjee; Madhumita Biswas; Stella Chitralekha Biswas; Ipsita Chakrabarty; Purnima Chakraborti; Abhinaba Ch
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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.
