Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2022
Editors:	Debayan Deb Barman
Foreword by:	Phil Fitzsimmons
Contributors:	Kyamalia Bairagya • Sourav Banerjee • Debayan Deb Barman • Nisarga Bhattacharjee • Madhumita Biswas • Stella Chitralekha Biswas • Ipsita Chakrabarty • Purnima Chakraborti
Dimensions:	228 x 161 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-1-79364-957-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-79364-957-X
Barcode:	9781793649577

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