Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives - Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender. It analyses crime-centred fiction and non-fiction in the region to see how actual or imagined crimes related to women were shaped and fashioned into images and narratives for contemporary genteel readers. The writings have been examined within a social-historical context where gender was a fiercely contested terrain for publicly fought debates on law, sexual relations, reform, and identity as moulded by culture, class, and caste. Both canonized literary writings (like those of Bankim Chatterji) as well as non-canonical, popular writings (of writers who have not received sufficient critical attention) are scrutinised in order to examine how criminal offences featuring women (as both victims and offenders) have been narrated in early manifestations of the genre of crime writing in Bangla. An empowered and thought-provoking study, this book will be of special interest to scholars of criminology and social justice, literature, and gender.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Shampa Roy
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	247
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-51597-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law Promotions
LSN:	1-137-51597-X
Barcode:	9781137515971

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