Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction
By (Author) Debayan Deb Barman
Foreword by Phil Fitzsimmons
Contributions by Kyamalia Bairagya
Contributions by Sourav Banerjee
Contributions by Debayan Deb Barman
Contributions by Nisarga Bhattacharjee
Contributions by Madhumita Biswas
Contributions by Stella Chitralekha Biswas
Contributions by Ipsita Chakrabarty
Contributions by Purnima Chakraborti
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
28th February 2022
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
823.087209
Physical Properties
Hardback
254
Width 161mm, Height 228mm, Spine 25mm
558g
Description
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.
Author Bio
Debayan Deb Barman is assistant professor at THLH Mahavidyalay University of Burdwan.
