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Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Garima Yadav - Thrill to Kill, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Thrill to Kill

Crime Fiction in South Asia

Av Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Garima Yadav

Del i serien Studies in Global Genre Fiction

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Thrill to Kill: Crime Fiction in South Asia expands the geography of crime fiction studies beyond India to Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma, exploring diverse crime narratives across multiple languages and regional cultures including Assam, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, and Kerala since the 1950s.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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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.

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'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

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