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Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives - Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives - Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
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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.
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