Full Description
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.
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.
