Thrill to Kill: Crime Fiction in South Asia: Studies in Global Genre Fiction
Editat de Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Garima Yadaven Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 ian 2027
This critical intervention moves beyond imitative Anglophone models to reveal crime fiction's complex generic history in South Asia. Using postcolonial and decolonial approaches, contributors analyse mysteries, forensic memoirs, thrillers, pulp fiction, spy fiction, comics, and cinematic adaptations. Chapters examine Burmese Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Agatha Christie's influence on Hindi cinema and OTT platforms, Edgar Allan Poe's ratiocination tales in contemporary Assamese fiction, and more, consistently challenging singular models of crime fiction studies and revealing the heterogeneity of South Asian crime narratives.
Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this volume is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners, literary critics, and historians working in genre studies, crime fiction, postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, popular literature, and South Asian studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041135395
ISBN-10: 1041135394
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: 4
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Studies in Global Genre Fiction
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041135394
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: 4
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Studies in Global Genre Fiction
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
List of figures. List of Contributors. Series Preface. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: The Female Detectives and the Gendered Body. 1. The Detective Novel and Social Reform for Women in India. 2. On the Means and Modes of Forensics: Reading Gender and Crime in Post-Independence Kerala. 3. Sexual Thrills and Moral Kills: Policing Sexuality in the Tamil Pulp Novel. Part 2: Vernacular Modernities and the Jasusi Archive. 4. Shwe U Daung's San Shar (1917-1962): The Burmese Sherlock Holmes and the Indian Residents of Rangoon. 5. Marwari Criminals and Bhadralok Anxiety in Satyajit Ray's Joy Baba Felunath. 6. Reform, Foreignness and Nationalism: Gujarati Detective Fiction in Colonial and Postcolonial India. 7. Reading Urdu Thrillers: A Microhistory of Class and Sexuality in Ibn-e Safi's Imran Series. 8. Pedagogies of the Pocketbook: Rajan Iqbal Series and the Adolescent Imaginary of Hindi Crime Fiction. Part 3: The Uncanny, The Mundane and the Ethics of Justice. 9. "People Just Started Disappearing": Reading Anil's Ghost as Detective Fiction. 10. Bangladesh's Uncanny Detective: Crime and Detection in I am Misir Ali. 11. Crime and Criminality in Assamese Fiction: Reading Saurav Kumar Chaliha's Jonbiri. Part 4: Adaptations, Alterity and the Homegrown Superhero. 12. In Search of the True National Detective: Reinvention of Byomkesh Bakshi in Popular Film and Television. 13. Murder Across Borders: The Politics of Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery and the Hindi OTT Series Adaptation Charlie Chopra and the Mystery of Solang Valley. 14. A Detective of Her Own: Domesticity, Star Text, and the Lineage of the Bengali Female Sleuth in Mitin Masi. 15. Superhero Nagraj, Terrorism and the Imagination of a Global Nation. Index
Recenzii
'Thrill to Kill: Crime Fiction in South Asia is a groundbreaking study that makes an important contribution to understanding how South Asian crime narratives negotiate and interrogate the complexities of the region’s combined and uneven modernities and post-colonial legacies. These wide-ranging studies on Assamese, Burmese, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Urdu crime stories push against the boundaries of existing (Western) taxonomies to reveal the diverse ways in which writers and filmmakers investigate the “radical heterogeneity that defines South Asia” from the perspective of crime and policing, justice and injustice. Thrill to Kill: Crime Fiction in South Asia is essential reading for anyone interested in South Asian popular fiction, culture, film, TV and streaming services, and world crime fiction.'
- Stewart King, Monash University, Co-Chief Editor, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Crime Fiction
'From Byomkesh to Mitin Masi to Charlie Chopra, this collection maps a genre I have loved my whole life. A rigorous, joyful exploration of a world we’ve underestimated for far too long.'
- Vishal Bhardwaj, Critically Acclaimed Filmmaker and National Film Awardee
- Stewart King, Monash University, Co-Chief Editor, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Crime Fiction
'From Byomkesh to Mitin Masi to Charlie Chopra, this collection maps a genre I have loved my whole life. A rigorous, joyful exploration of a world we’ve underestimated for far too long.'
- Vishal Bhardwaj, Critically Acclaimed Filmmaker and National Film Awardee
Notă biografică
Shweta Sachdeva Jha is an Associate Professor at the Department of English, Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her research areas are tawa’if cultures, genre fiction and digital archives. Her most recent publications include essays in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, South Asian Popular Culture and a chapter in Anna Morcom and Neelam Raina eds. Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers (2025).
Garima Yadav is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. A Jawaharlal Nehru University alumna, she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. Her research interests are crime fiction, Indian Literature in English, and popular culture. Her work has been published in Springer, Worldview, and Indira Gandhi National Open University Press.
Garima Yadav is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. A Jawaharlal Nehru University alumna, she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. Her research interests are crime fiction, Indian Literature in English, and popular culture. Her work has been published in Springer, Worldview, and Indira Gandhi National Open University Press.
Descriere
This critical intervention moves beyond imitative Anglophone models to reveal crime fiction's complex generic history in South Asia. Using postcolonial and decolonial approaches, contributors analyse mysteries, forensic memoirs, thrillers, pulp fiction, spy fiction, comics, and cinematic adaptations.