1st Edition
Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India
List of Figures and Plates
Note on Transliteration
Preface: Intermediality and the Narrative Tradition in India
Chapter 1: Mythological Revisionings
Chapter 2: Comic Gags and the Mahabharata War
Chapter 3: From Comic Book to Folk Performance
Chapter 4: Myths, Science Fiction, and Indian Superheroes
Chapter 5: Words and Images: The Craft of Comics Narration
References
Index
Biography
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).
