1st Edition
Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia
Introduction E. Dawson Varughese and Rajinder Dudrah
Chapter 1: Graphics of the Multitude: Reading Figure and Text in Drawing from the City, Filippo Menozzi
Chapter 2: Development Narratives, Media and Women in Pakistan: Shifts and Continuities, Shirin Zubair
Chapter 3: Diasporic (Dis)Identification: The Participatory Fandom of Ms. Marvel, Winona Landis
Chapter 4: Visualising Caste: A Gardener in the Wasteland and the politics of graphic adaptation, Deepali Yadav
Chapter 5: Watching Zindagi, Pakistani Social Lives on Indian TV, Spandan Bhattacharya and Anugyan Nag
Chapter 6: War Cry of the Beggars: An exploration into city, cinema and graphic narratives, Madhuja Mikherjee
Chapter 7: Remnants of a Separation: a ghara and a gaz, from Lahore to Amritsar to Delhi, Aanchal Malhotra
Chapter 8: Tamil Comics: New Media, revival, and the recovery of history, Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
Chapter 9: ‘IMPOSTERS’: an interview with graphic artist and designer Orijit Sen, E. Dawson Varughese
Biography
E. Dawson Varughese is an independent scholar and a Senior Fellow at Manipal Centre for Humanities, India. She publishes on Indian genre fiction in English see Genre Fiction of New India: Post-Millennial Receptions of "Weird" Narratives (Routledge) as well as on public wall art and Indian graphic narratives. Further information about her work can be found at beyondthepostcolonial.com and seeingnewindia.com
Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries in the School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK. He has researched and published widely across film, media and cultural studies. His books include, amongst others, Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge). He is also the founding Co-Editor of the journal South Asian Popular Culture.
