Raminder Kaur, Saif Eqbal

Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture in the subcontinent from the pre- and post-liberalisation periods of the 1980s-90s to the contemporary era dominated by creative audio-video-digital outlets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429784316
• Artikelnr.: 56838611

Autorenporträt

Raminder Kaur is Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Atomic Mumbai: Living with the Radiance of a Thousand Suns (2013) and Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism (2003/5). She is also co-author of Diaspora and Hybridity and co-editor of Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World, Mapping Changing Identities: New Directions in Uncertain Times, Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction, Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens and Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics. She has also written several scripts for theatre at www.sohayavisions.com.

Saif Eqbal is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He graduated in Political Science from B.R.A. Bihar University, and Politics, and completed his master's degree (with a specialisation in International Relations) and MPhil from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is the co-author (with Raminder Kaur) of 'Gendering graphics in Indian superhero comic books and some notes for provincializing cultural studies' in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2015).