Description
Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India
Author: Chatterji Roma
Language: EnglishKeywords
Amar Chitra Katha; White Blood Cells; Indian comics; Chaos Magick; graphic novel; White Blood Corpuscles; Indian superheroes; God Element; popular culture; White Space; picture storytelling; Treta Yuga; visual culture; Superhero Comics; mythology; Superhero Genre; epics; Superhero Mythos; graphic narration; commercial superhero comics; Female Ceo; graphic storytelling; American Superhero Comics; Indian myths; Comic Book Page; science fiction; Bosom Friend; Human Suffering; Superhero Archetype; Virgin Comics; Speech Balloons; Superhero Narrative; Shadow Puppet Play
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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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 the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata War, a folk artist?s rendition of a comic book story, and a commercial project to re-imagine two of India?s most famous epics ? the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ? as science fiction and superhero tales.
It discusses comic books and self-published graphic novels; bardic performance aided with painted scrolls and commercial superhero comics; myths, folklore, and science fiction; and different pictorial styles and genres of graphic narration and storytelling. It also examines the actual process of the creation of comics besides discussions with artists on the tools and location of the comics medium as well as the method and impact of translation and crossover genres in such narratives.
With its clear, lucid style and rich illustrations, the book will be useful to scholars and researchers of sociology, anthropology, visual culture and media, and South Asian studies, as well as those working on art history, religion, popular culture, graphic novels, art and design, folk culture, literature, and performing arts.
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
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).