1st Edition

Seeing Indian Women Comics, Graphic Novels and Transmedia Illustrations

By Nilakshi Goswami Copyright 2027
236 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

236 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

236 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

Although, for years, women were portrayed as one-dimensional beings, Indian graphic novels have come a long way from solely idealizing the Hindu/Vedic past to contemporary digital comics with augmented reality, where individual stories of women are shared and politicized. Drawing on a decade of women’s mis/representation across comics, graphic novels, and digital comics, the book would... Read more

Introduction

1.     Revisiting Heroines: Gender, Religion, and Resistance in Amar Chitra Katha

2.     Re(Imagining) Women as Goddesses: From Bazaar Art to Sita’s Ramayana

3.     Queer Visibility in Amruta Patil’s Kari: Myth, Modernity and Performing the Non-Binary

4.     From Comic Strips to Graphic Anthology: Visual Parables of Gendered Resistance and Resilience, and Collective Authorship

5.     The Everyday Goddesses in the Digital Age: Divinity in Webcomics, Visual Campaigns, and Contemporary Visual Art

6.     Feminist Webcomics and Panels of Resistance: Gendered Narratives in Sanitary Panels, Doodleodrama, and Royal Existentials

Biography

Nilakshi Goswami, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022) at the Department of Anthropology, Boston University, is an Assistant Professor of English at Girijananda Chowdhury University, Guwahati, India.