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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300015703321

Autore

Varughese E. Dawson

Titolo

Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives / / by E. Dawson Varughese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-69490-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVI, 119 p. 9 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, , 2634-6370

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Communication

Ethnology—Asia

Literature   

Asia—History

Media and Communication

Asian Culture

Postcolonial/World Literature

History of South Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Publishing Indian Graphic Narratives Post Millennium -- 2. Modes of Visuality in New India -- 3. Visuality: "Seeing" the Inauspicious -- 4. Identity: Representations of "Indianness" -- 5. Conclusions: Decoding Current Lines and Future Spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

“E. Dawson Varughese’s in-depth readings of the form and content of lesser known narratives that powerfully enrich the range and scope of alternative comics foreground the importance of a corpus that tackles all basic issues of post-millennial modernity in India.” —Jan Baetens, co-author with Hugo Frey of The Graphic Novel “The ‘old’ and the ‘new’ are brought together in interesting ways in her understanding of post-millennial Indian identities through the graphic novel and other visual cultural forms. Varughese offers us a compelling read and invaluable insights.” —Rajinder Dudrah, Birmingham City University, UK This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-



millennial modernity and ‘ways of seeing’ through the medium of Indian graphic narratives. If seeing in Indian cultures is a mode of knowing then what might we decode and know from the Indian graphic narratives examined here? The book posits that the ‘seeing’ of post-millennial Indian graphic narratives revolves around a visuality of the inauspicious, complemented by narratives of the same. Examining both form and content across nine Indian, post-millennial graphic narratives, this book will appeal to those working in South Asian visual studies, cultural studies and comics-graphic novel studies more broadly. E. Dawson Varughese is an independent, global cultural studies scholar, specialising in post-millennial Indian visual and literary cultures. She publishes on genre fiction, book cover design and public wall art. Her latest book is Genre Fiction of New India (Routledge, 2016). She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Delhi in 2017. www.beyondthepostcolonial.com.