國立虎尾科技大學 |

Gender and criminality in Bangla crime narratives = late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender and criminality in Bangla crime narratives/ by Shampa Roy.
Reminder of title:	late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /
Author:	Roy, Shampa.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2017.,
Description:	xi, 247 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Bengali literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51598-8
ISBN:	9781137515988

Gender and criminality in Bangla crime narratives = late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /
Roy, Shampa.

Gender and criminality in Bangla crime narrativeslate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /[electronic resource] :by Shampa Roy. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017. - xi, 247 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave advances in criminology and criminal justice in Asia. - Palgrave advances in criminology and criminal justice in Asia..

1. Plotting Crimes: Early Crime Writings in Bangla and their Contexts -- 2. Bleak Houses: Domestic Dystopias and Crimes in Bankim's Bishbrikhha and Krishnakanta's Will -- 3. Wanton Wives and Widows: Investigating Female Bodies in the Daroga Accounts of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay -- 4. Deviant by Design: Female Criminals in the Daroga Accounts of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay -- 5. Detection and Desire: Male Goyendas and their Female Bette-Noirs in the Early Bangla Detective Novels.

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.

ISBN: 9781137515988

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-51598-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1142650
Bengali literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PK1708 / .R69 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 891.4409004

Gender and criminality in Bangla crime narratives = late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /
LDR:02588nam a2200301 a 4500 001 885470
003 DE-He213
005 20170522150144.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 180530s2017 enk s 0 eng d
020 $a 9781137515988 $q (electronic bk.)
020 $a 9781137515971 $q (paper)
024 7 $a 10.1057/978-1-137-51598-8 $2 doi
035 $a 978-1-137-51598-8
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a PK1708 $b .R69 2017
082 0 4 $a 891.4409004 $2 23
090 $a PK1708 $b .R888 2017
100 1 $a Roy, Shampa. $3 1142649
245 1 0 $a Gender and criminality in Bangla crime narratives $h [electronic resource] : $b late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / $c by Shampa Roy.
260 $a London : $c 2017. $b Palgrave Macmillan UK : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
300 $a xi, 247 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
490 1 $a Palgrave advances in criminology and criminal justice in Asia
505 0 $a 1. Plotting Crimes: Early Crime Writings in Bangla and their Contexts -- 2. Bleak Houses: Domestic Dystopias and Crimes in Bankim's Bishbrikhha and Krishnakanta's Will -- 3. Wanton Wives and Widows: Investigating Female Bodies in the Daroga Accounts of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay -- 4. Deviant by Design: Female Criminals in the Daroga Accounts of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay -- 5. Detection and Desire: Male Goyendas and their Female Bette-Noirs in the Early Bangla Detective Novels.
520 $a 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.
650 0 $a Bengali literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. $3 1142650
650 0 $a Bengali literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. $3 1142651
650 0 $a Crime in literature. $3 571070
650 0 $a Women $x Crimes against $z India $z Bengal. $3 1142652
650 0 $a Female offenders $z India $z Bengal $x History. $3 1142653
650 1 4 $a Criminology and Criminal Justice. $3 1113744
650 2 4 $a Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime. $3 1140277
650 2 4 $a Gender, Sexuality and Law. $3 1141632
650 2 4 $a Violence and Crime. $3 1142654
650 2 4 $a Asian Literature. $3 1104894
650 2 4 $a Human Rights and Crime. $3 1140276
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
830 0 $a Palgrave advances in criminology and criminal justice in Asia. $3 1114752
856 4 0 $u http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51598-8
950 $a Law and Criminology (Springer-41177)