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Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia

Author : E. Dawson Varughese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000043061
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia written by E. Dawson Varughese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia explores the shifting landscapes of the graphic narratives and related visual cultures scene in South Asia today. This exciting volume explores the ever-developing scene of graphic novels, graphic narratives and related visual cultures in South Asia. Covering topics such as Tamil comics, material memory, the politics of graphic adaptation, the fandom of Ms Marvel as well as watching Pakistani social lives on Indian TV, this collection of essays are testament to how visual cultures across South Asia are responding to a new world order. The collection of work explores how certain visual cultures in South Asia are attempting to re-shape previous modes of visuality by unpacking what it means to be living in South Asia today. Through its inclusion of articles, visual essays and in-conversation pieces, this collection offers insight into the ways in which this narrative is unfolding, the kind of stories which are being told and how, in telling these stories, South Asian society is called upon to engage and crucially, to react to what we see, how and why we see it. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Popular Culture journal.

Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America

Author : Kavita Daiya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000730018
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America written by Kavita Daiya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest. A diverse group of scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America examine aesthetics, politics, and ideology in sequential art about South Asia and South Asian America. The book features contributions which address gender violence; authoritarian politics; caste discrimination; environmentalism; racism; and urban street art, amongst others. The unique interdisciplinary span of the volume considers mass popular comic books as well as the graphic novel. This edited volume would be of interest to those studying the influence of graphic novels, graphic narratives, and comic books in South Asia, as well as researchers interested in what these forms might have to say about important issues in society. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Review journal.

Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives

Author : E. Dawson Varughese
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319694901
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives written by E. Dawson Varughese and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia

Author : E Varughese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032838984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia written by E Varughese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia explores the shifting landscapes of the graphic narratives and related visual cultures scene in South Asia today. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Popular Culture journal.

Seeing South Asia

Author : Dev Nath Pathak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100056357X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Seeing South Asia written by Dev Nath Pathak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It makes a key contribution to the study of visuals in the social sciences in South Asia by studying the interplay of the seen and unseen, and the visual and nonvisual. The volume explores interrelated themes including the vernacular visual and visuality, ways of seeing in South Asia and the methodology of hermeneutic sensorium, anxiety and politics of the visuals across the region and the trajectory of visual anthropology, significance of visual symbols and representations in contemporary performances and folk art, visual landscapes of loss and recovery and representation of refugees, visual public in South Asia and making of visuals for contemporary consumptions. The chapters unravel the concepts of visual, visibility, visuality while attending to determinant meta-ideas, such as memory and modernity, trajectories of tradition, fluidity and hybridity, and visual performative politics. Based on interdisciplinary resources, the chapters in this volume present a wide array of empirical findings across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, along with analytical readings of the visual culture of the subcontinent across borders. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of visual and cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political studies, media and communications studies, performance studies, art history, television and film studies, photography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners including artists, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and media critics.

South Asian Ways of Seeing

Author : Samarth Singhal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789355723178
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Ways of Seeing written by Samarth Singhal and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures brings together eminent as well as new scholarly voices from across disciplines to explore South Asia from a visual standpoint, exploring multiple mediums and multiple ways of seeing, including tarot, film, graphic novels, painting, death pictures, graffiti, and installation art. With an intent to establish conversations between and across disciplines like history, sociology, literature, art history, culture and media studies, the discursivity of visual cultures in framing a South Asian imaginary is attempted.

South-Asian Fiction in English

Author : Alex Tickell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403543
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book South-Asian Fiction in English written by Alex Tickell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.

Media in Asia

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000584356
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Media in Asia written by Youna Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an upper-level student source book for contemporary approaches to media studies in Asia, which will appeal across a wide range of social sciences and humanities subjects including media and communication studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and Asian studies, it provides an empirically rich and stimulating tour of key areas of study. The book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in one up-to-date and accessible volume, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today.

Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India

Author : Raminder Kaur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429784317
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India written by Raminder Kaur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books for young people in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture in the subcontinent from the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary era dominated by creative audio-video-digital outlets. The authors highlight early precedents in adventures set by the avuncular detective Chacha Chaudhary with his ‘faster than a computer brain’, the forays of the film veteran Amitabh Bachchan’s superheroic alter ego called Supremo, the Protectors of Earth and Mankind (P.O.E.M.), along with the exploits of key comic book characters, such as Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruv, Parmanu, Doga, Shakti and Chandika. The book considers how pulp literature, western comics, television programmes, technological developments and major space ventures sparked a thirst for extraterrestrial action and how these laid the grounds for vernacular ventures in the Indian superhero comics genre. It contains descriptions, textual and contextual analyses, excerpts of interviews with comic book creators, producers, retailers and distributers, together with the views, dreams and fantasies of young readers of adventure comics. These narratives touch upon special powers, super-intelligence, phenomenal technologies, justice, vengeance, geopolitics, romance, sex and the amazing potentials of masked identities enabled by navigation of the internet. With its lucid style and rich illustrations, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of popular and visual cultures, comics studies, literature, media and cultural studies, social anthropology and sociology, and South Asian studies.

Postcolonial Comics

Author : Binita Mehta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131781410X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Comics written by Binita Mehta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in twenty-first-century (con)texts. The authors demonstrate that the fields of comic-book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies, reconstitute conventional "image-functions" in established social texts and political systems, and present competing narratives of resistance and rights. In this sense, postcolonial comic cultures are of particular significance in the context of a newly global and politically recomposed landscape. This volume introduces a timely intervention within current comic-book-area studies that remain firmly situated within the "U.S.-European and Japanese manga paradigms" and their reading publics. It will be of great interest to a wide variety of disciplines including postcolonial studies, comics-area studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

Apsara Engine

Author : Bishakh Som
Publisher : Feminist Press
ISBN 13 : 9781936932818
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Apsara Engine written by Bishakh Som and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In trans illustrator Bishakh Som's debut work of fiction, questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity are explored over the course of eight speculative and graphic short stories"--

India's Immortal Comic Books

Author : Karline McLain
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253220521
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book India's Immortal Comic Books written by Karline McLain and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the ACK production offices and had many conversations with Anant Pai, founder and publisher, and with artists, writers, and readers about why the comics are so popular and what messages they convey. In this intriguing study, she explores the making of the comic books and the kinds of editorial and ideological choices that go into their production.

Comics and Graphic Novels

Author : Julia Round
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350336084
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Comics and Graphic Novels written by Julia Round and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural. Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.

Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia

Author : E. Dawson Varughese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781000043068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia written by E. Dawson Varughese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia explores the shifting landscapes of the graphic narratives and related visual cultures scene in South Asia today. This exciting volume explores the ever-developing scene of graphic novels, graphic narratives and related visual cultures in South Asia. Covering topics such as Tamil comics, material memory, the politics of graphic adaptation, the fandom of Ms Marvel as well as watching Pakistani social lives on Indian TV, this collection of essays are testament to how visual cultures across South Asia are responding to a new world order. The collection of work explores how certain visual cultures in South Asia are attempting to re-shape previous modes of visuality by unpacking what it means to be living in South Asia today. Through its inclusion of articles, visual essays and in-conversation pieces, this collection offers insight into the ways in which this narrative is unfolding, the kind of stories which are being told and how, in telling these stories, South Asian society is called upon to engage and crucially, to react to what we see, how and why we see it. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Popular Culture journal.

Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art

Author : John A. Lent
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030952436
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art written by John A. Lent and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores various aspects of transnationalism and comics art in six East Asian and seven Southeast Asian countries/territories. The 14 richly illustrated chapters embrace comics, cartoons, and animation relative to offshore production, transnational ownership, multinational collaboration, border crossings of comics art creators and characters, expansion of overseas markets, cartoonists in political exile, colonial underpinnings, adaptation of foreign styles and formats, representation of other cultures, and more. Using case studies, historical accounts, descriptive overviews, individual artists’ profiles, and representational analyses, and fascinatingly told through techniques as document use, interviews, observation, and textual analyses, the end result is a thorough, interesting, and compact volume on transnationalism and comics art in East and Southeast Asia.

South Asian Gothic

Author : Katarzyna Ancuta
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683801X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Gothic written by Katarzyna Ancuta and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The volume consists of fifteen chapters by experts in film, literature and cultural studies of South Asia, representing the diversity of the region and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary South Asian cultures. Gothic in South Asia can be read as a distinctive aesthetic, narrative practice, or a process of signification, where conventional Gothic tropes and imagery are assessed anew and global forms are consumed, appropriated, translated, transformed or resisted. The volume investigates South Asian Gothic as a local variety of international Gothic and part of the transnational category of globalgothic, contributing to the ongoing discussion on the need to de-westernise Gothic methodologies and ensure that Gothic scholarship remains relevant in the culturally-diverse modern world.

Nine Nights of Power

Author : Ute Hüsken
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484089
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Nine Nights of Power written by Ute Hüsken and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autumnal Navarātri festival—also called Durgā Pūjā, Dassehra, or Dasain—is the most important Hindu festival in South Asia and wherever Hindus settle. A nine-night-long celebration in honor of the goddess Durgā, it ends on the tenth day with a celebration called "the victorious tenth" (vijayadaśamī). The rituals that take place in domestic, royal, and public spaces are closely connected with one's station in life and dependent on social status, economic class, caste, and gender issues. Exploring different aspects of the festival as celebrated in diverse regions of South Asia and in the South Asian diaspora, this book addresses the following common questions: What does this festival do? What does it achieve, and how? Why and in what way does it sometimes fail? How do mass communication and social media increase participation in and contribute to the changing nature of the festival? The contributors address these questions from multiple perspectives and discuss issues of agency, authority, ritual efficacy, change, appropriation, and adaptation. Because of the festival's reach beyond its diverse celebrations in South Asia, its influence can be seen in the rituals and dances in many parts of Western Europe and North America.