Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India

ISBN-13: 9780367272876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 114 str.

Roma Chatterji

Opis

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses examples to show how they re-imagine two of India’s most famous epics — the Ramayana and the Mahabharata — as science fiction and superhero tales.

Spis treści

List of Figures. List of Plates. Note on Transliteration. Preface. 1. Mythological Revisionings 2. Comic Gags and the Mahabharata War 3. From Comic Book to Folk Performance 4. Myths, Science Fiction, and Indian Superheroes 5. Words and Images: The Craft of Comics Narration. References. Index

O autorze

Roma Chatterji is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. Apart from an abiding interest in folklore, art, and narrative theory, she has worked on illness narratives and collective violence. She is the author of Writing Identities: Folklore and Performance in Purulia, West Bengal (2009) and Speaking with Pictures (2012), and co-author of Living with Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007). She is editor of Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Instruction (2015) and co-editor of Riot Discourses (2007).