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Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69490-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-69489-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 18, 2017

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Chapter 1Publishing Indian Graphic Narratives Post Millennium

Varughese, E. Dawson

Pages: 1 –11

[This chapter surveys the post-millennial context of writing, publishing and reading Indian genre fiction in English, specifically Indian graphic narratives within India. It details the economic and political changes that have led to increased consumerism in the leisure market, which has in turn...
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Chapter 2Modes of Visuality in New India

Varughese, E. Dawson

Pages: 13 –22

[This chapter is particularly interested in the intersection of post-millennial Indian society, the encoding of modernity and ‘ways of seeing’. It begins by considering the twenty-first century and the call to ‘see’ challenging images. The chapter moves on to discuss sacred and secular moments of...
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Chapter 3Visuality: ‘Seeing’ the Inauspicious

Varughese, E. Dawson

Pages: 23 –62

[This chapter focusses on how India is represented inauspiciously in post-millennial Indian graphic narratives through their exploration and depiction of child abuse, the Emergency in 1970s India, class and caste and (socially) conventional ideas of marriage. In analysing two graphic short...
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Chapter 4Identity: Representations of ‘Indianness’

Varughese, E. Dawson

Pages: 63 –100

[This chapter explores representations of Indian identities in post-millennial Indian graphic narratives through their depiction of loyalty and allegiance to a nation, caste and celebrity stardom set to a backdrop of New India. In analysing one graphic short story (Twelve: How it ends), one...
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Chapter 5Conclusions: Decoding Current Lines and Future Spaces

Varughese, E. Dawson

Pages: 101 –115

[This chapter considers the current moment of Indian graphic narrative production and considers what the future might (not) offer for the medium. The chapter also explores what we can know from understanding how inauspiciousness is conveyed in form and content in Indian graphic narratives. A...

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