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Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives

Author : Shampa Roy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137515988

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Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives by Shampa Roy Pdf

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.

True Crime Writings in Colonial India

Author : Shampa Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000171235

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True Crime Writings in Colonial India by Shampa Roy Pdf

The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market. This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ — infamous for publishing ‘sensational’ and the ‘vulgar’ literature — which had an avid bhadralok (genteel) readership. The volume focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Bakaullah and Priyanath Mukhopadhyay who worked as darogas (Detective Inspectors) in the police department in mid-late nineteenth century colonised Bengal. These published accounts of cases investigated by them are among the very first manifestations of the crime genre in India. The writings reflect their understandings of criminality and guilt, as well as negotiations with colonial law and policing. Further, through a selection of cases in which women make an appearance either as victims or offenders, (or sometimes as both,) this book sheds light on the hidden gendered experiences of the time, often missing in mainstream Bangla literature. Combining a love for suspense with critical readings of a cultural phenomenon, this book will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of comparative literature, translation studies, gender studies, literary theory, cultural studies, modern history, and lovers of crime fiction from all disciplines.

The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volumes I and II

Author : Tarun K. Saint
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789357315876

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The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volumes I and II by Tarun K. Saint Pdf

The professionals meet the amateurs in this first–ever anthology of Indian detective fiction. Volume 1 An elite squad detective from the future travels back in time to hunt down a time escapee. Across the city of Tokyo, liquids are turning blue, and elsewhere a Tamil actress is kidnapped. The gruesome murder of an adult industry star spirals into a web of deceit and leads to a bizarre revelation. A journalist races against time to find the missing link between the deaths of a daily soap actress, a classical vocalist and a famous painter. And more... Volume 2 A detective delves into a cold case; a ship that disappeared in the Bay of Bengal in the year 1913. A man is bludgeoned to death in an apartment and a piece of paper with the word 'STOP!' is nailed to his forehead. Six deaths under mysterious circumstances and the only common link is a box of arsenic–laced sweets. A soldier's homecoming dredges up memories of a murder that took place a decade ago in the family. And more... The first–ever anthology of its kind, The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction compiles more than 30 compelling whodunits, supernatural mysteries, serial murders and absurd crimes spread across two volumes. Through hybrid, self–reflexive and experimental forms of writing (including translations from Bengali and Tamil), this collection invites readers to unravel mysteries with every turn of the page, masterfully showcasing distinctive instances of the genre. Red herrings simmered in blood gravy, served up with family feuds, ancient curses, long–haired lady sleuths and many other typical subcontinental chutneys provide a rare feast for the avid reader of crime fiction! Featuring the works of: Volume 1 Satyajit Ray * Gopa Majumdar * Saradindu Bandopadhyay * Gopa Majumdar * Ambai * Gita Subramanian * Ankush Saikia * Meeti Shroff Shah * Suchitra Bhattacharya * Radha Chakravarty * Sujan DasGupta * Chandana Dutta * Anirudh Kala * Tamilvanan * Rabindranath Tagore * Shampa Roy * Anil Menon * Tanuj Solanki * Timeri Murari * Navin Weeraratne * Kehkashan Khalid * Sumit Bardhan * Kiran Manral * Shweta Taneja * Saad Z. Hossain Volume 2 Rajarshi Das Bhowmik * Arunava Sinha * Vikram Chandra * Giti Chandra * Swati Kaushal * Ajay Chowdhury * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay * Debaditya Mukhopadhyay * Vish Dhamija * Salil Desai * Mahendra Jakhar * Sharatchandra Sarkar * Shampa Roy * Vaseem Khan * Nev March * Anuradha Kumar * Madhulika Liddle * Arjun Raj Gaind * Shashi Warrier * Avtar Singh For detailed content, please look inside the book. * Illustration continuity across covers and spine * 2–volume collectible (Royal 8vo hardback set) * A magnetic clasp box–wrap * Detective–element themed sprayed edges * Endpaper artwork by Manjula Padmanabhan

The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volume 1

Author : Various
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789357312820

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The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volume 1 by Various Pdf

An elite squad detective from the future travels back in time to hunt down a time escapee. Across the city of Tokyo, liquids are turning blue, and elsewhere a Tamil actress is kidnapped. The gruesome murder of an adult industry star spirals into a web of deceit and leads to a bizarre revelation. A journalist races against time to find the missing link between the deaths of a daily soap actress, a classical vocalist and a famous painter. And more... The first-ever anthology of its kind, The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction compiles more than 30 compelling whodunits spread across two volumes. Hybrid, self-reflexive and experimental forms of writing that blur the boundaries between genres, with supernatural mysteries, serial murders and at times absurd crimes jostling for the attention of both amateur and professional detectives in these stories. Red herrings simmered in blood gravy, served up with family feuds, ancient curses, long-haired lady sleuths and many other typical subcontinental chutneys provide a rare feast for the avid reader of crime fiction!

The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volume 2

Author : Various
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789357312844

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The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volume 2 by Various Pdf

A detective delves into a cold case; a ship that disappeared in the Bay of Bengal in the year 1913. A man is bludgeoned to death in an apartment and a piece of paper with the word 'STOP!' is nailed to his forehead. Six deaths under mysterious circumstances and the only common link is a box of arsenic-laced sweets. A soldier's homecoming dredges up memories of a murder that took place a decade ago in the family. And more... The first-ever anthology of its kind, The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction compiles more than 30 compelling whodunits spread across two volumes. Hybrid, self-reflexive and experimental forms of writing that blur the boundaries between genres, with supernatural mysteries, serial murders and at times absurd crimes jostling for the attention of both amateur and professional detectives in these stories. Red herrings simmered in blood gravy, served up with family feuds, ancient curses, long-haired lady sleuths and many other typical subcontinental chutneys provide a rare feast for the avid reader of crime fiction!

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence

Author : Stacy Banwell,Lynsey Black,Dawn K. Cecil,Yanyi K. Djamba,Sitawa R. Kimuna,Emma Milne,Lizzie Seal,Eric Y. Tenkorang
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803822556

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The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence by Stacy Banwell,Lynsey Black,Dawn K. Cecil,Yanyi K. Djamba,Sitawa R. Kimuna,Emma Milne,Lizzie Seal,Eric Y. Tenkorang Pdf

Grounded in feminist scholarship, this book upends normative accounts of femme fatale violence to focus beyond the misogyny and the sensationalism and unearth the motivation behind women's roles in homicide, terrorism, combat, and even nationalist movements.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2023)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476651637

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Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2023) by Anonim Pdf

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

Author : Maysaa Husam Jaber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137356475

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Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction by Maysaa Husam Jaber Pdf

This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

Author : Janice Allan,Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Andrew Pepper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429842429

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The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction by Janice Allan,Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Andrew Pepper Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices, examines the textual characteristics of crime fiction. Part III, Interfaces investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Rigorously argued and engagingly written, the volume is indispensable both to students and scholars of crime fiction.

Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction

Author : Nina L. Molinaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317079057

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Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction by Nina L. Molinaro Pdf

Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural. She argues that even as the series incorporates gender differences into the crime series formula, it does so in order to correct women, naturalize men’s authority, sanction social hierarchies, and assuage collective anxieties. As Molinaro shows, with the exception of the protagonist, the women characters require constant surveillance and modification, often as a result of men’s supposedly intrinsic protectiveness or excessive sexuality. Men, by contrast, circulate more freely in the fictional world and are intrinsic to the political, psychological, and economic prosperity of their communities. Molinaro situates her discussion in Petra Delicado’s contemporary Spain of dog owners, ¡Hola!, Russian cults, and gated communities.

Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760

Author : Kirsten T. Saxton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317090212

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Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760 by Kirsten T. Saxton Pdf

Arguing that the female criminal subject was central to the rise of the British novel, Kirsten T. Saxton provides fresh and convincing insights into the deeply complex ways in which categories of criminality, gender, and fiction intersected in the long eighteenth century. She offers the figure of the murderess as evidence of the constitutive relationship between eighteenth-century legal and fictional texts, comparing non-fiction representations of homicidal women in biographies of Newgate Ordinaries and in trial reports with those in the early novels of Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Daniel Defoe, and Henry Fielding. As Saxton demonstrates that legal narratives informed the budding genre of the novel and fictional texts shaped the development of legal narratives, her study of deadly plots becomes a feminist intervention in scholarship on the literature of crime that simultaneously insists on the centrality of crime literature in feminist histories of the novel. Her epilogue shows that more than two centuries later, we still contend with displays of female violence that defy and define our notions of textual and sexual license and continue to shape legal and literary mandates, even as the lines between the real and the fictive remain blurred.

Gender and Crime

Author : Sandra L. Browning,Leah C. Butler,Cheryl Lero Jonson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040013601

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Gender and Crime by Sandra L. Browning,Leah C. Butler,Cheryl Lero Jonson Pdf

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime. In 1975, Freda Adler published her pathbreaking book, Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal. She made the bold claim that changes in American society—including changing attitudes and opportunities—would allow for greater participation of women in criminal enterprises. Beyond her substantive thesis, which turned out to be partially accurate, Adler opened up a vibrant new area within criminology: the study of gender and crime. Now nearly a half‐century later, the field of criminology is replete with women scholars who are making plentiful and important contributions. As a result, this volume explores cutting‐edge issues. Part I starts by laying out a theoretical foundation, focusing on the origins of theories of female criminality, and then providing an overview of more contemporary perspectives. Part II explores the role of race in shaping women’s criminality, drawing on the novel approaches of “Black Criminology” and the study of intersectionality. Part III gives attention to issues that heretofore were male‐centric, illuminating female desistance from crime, the effects of peer groups, and gender differences in attitudes toward criminal justice policies. Finally, Part IV considers the explanation of three important realms of criminality—risky lifestyles, white‐collar crime, and terrorism. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of criminologists and is an ideal choice for use in graduate seminars and upper‐level undergraduate courses.

Women Defendants and International Law

Author : Sheri Labenski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040051559

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Women Defendants and International Law by Sheri Labenski Pdf

This book addresses the largely neglected place of women defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction of women as victims, and asks what the analysis of women perpetrators, defendants and suspects reveals about international criminal law, the media and feminism. The book uses the topic of women perpetrators, defendants and suspects as a way to explore the concept of legal subjectivity via a gender analysis. It highlights how women perpetrators, defendants and suspects are constituted through three spheres, namely the areas of international criminal law, the media and feminism. In examining the relationship between women perpetrators, defendants and suspects and each of these spheres, the book exposes embedded gender biases and structural gender fractures. These reveal that problematic assumptions about how gender operates in conflict are embedded in the very foundations of legal imaginations. Ultimately, the book argues that this has far reaching consequences, beyond its impact on current understandings of armed conflict. Rather, these assumptions should be a concern for us all, even in times of peace. This book will be of use to legal academics and practitioners interested in gender within international criminal law, as well as those concerned with contemporary feminist approaches to law.

The Health Humanities in German Studies

Author : Stephanie M. Hilger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350296213

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The Health Humanities in German Studies by Stephanie M. Hilger Pdf

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to surveying the current critical terrain in unparalleled depth, it also explores future directions that these fields may take. Organized around seven sections representing key areas of focus for both disciplines, this book provides important new insights into the intersections between Health Humanities, German Studies, and other fields of inquiry that have been gaining prominence over the past decade in academic and public discourse. In their contributions, the authors engage with disability studies, critical race studies, gender/embodiment studies, trauma studies, as well as animal/environmental studies.

Class, Race, Gender, and Crime

Author : Gregg Barak,Paul Leighton,Allison Cotton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442268890

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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime by Gregg Barak,Paul Leighton,Allison Cotton Pdf

Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is an introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book explores how power and privilege shape our understanding of crime and justice. The fifth edition features new material on police violence and Black Lives Matter, disability, and more.