Indian Graphic Novel Nation, history and critique

ISBN-13: 9781138488700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Nayar, Pramod K. (University of Hyderabad, India)

Opis

This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre’s engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire.

Spis treści

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Graphic Turn in Indian Writing in English 1. Graphic History 2. Urban Graphic 3. Cultural Graphics 4. Drawing (On) Other Histories 5. Graphic Satire Conclusion: The Graphic Narrative and Critical Literacy  Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance (2015); Posthumanism (2014); Frantz Fanon (2013); the edited collection, Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (Routledge, 2014) and Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Constructions of Human Rights in India (Routledge, 2012).