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Author Dawson Varughese, E., author

Title Visuality and identity in post-millennial Indian graphic narratives / E. Dawson Varughese
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 119 pages : illustrations (some color))
Series Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- India -- History and criticism
Graphic novels -- India -- History and criticism
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels
India
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319694900
3319694901