Superheroes in Indian Comics
Deliberations from Anthropology
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge India
- Date of Publication 17 February 2026
- ISBN 9781041002802
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 53 Illustrations, black & white; 9 Illustrations, color; 53 Halftones, black & white; 9 Halftones, color 697
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Short description:
Exploring the work of three publishing houses who publish Superhero Comics, this volume analyses their techniques of narration through open-ended plots, frequent re-boots of the storyline, extended story arcs, and a complex narrative while testing serious socio-political issues in the mode of fantasy.
MoreLong description:
There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry. It is the hallowed graphic novel, with its auteur/author, for which serious work is reserved.
This volume presents the work of three publishing houses who publish Superhero Comics in Delhi and Mumbai. It analyses their techniques of narration associated with the serial publication of commercial comics such as open-ended plots, frequent re-boots of the storyline, extended story arcs, and a complex narrative universe to throw into sharper relief the value of superhero comic books as distinct from the graphic novel. Through an exploration of commercial Superhero Comics, the authors wish to draw attention to a fluidity embedded in Superhero Comics, which is influenced by external pressures of distribution and production that are generally ignored in the desire to view a comic text as a discrete and disembodied whole. Superhero Comics then emerge as a post-modern vehicle to test serious socio-political issues in the mode of fantasy.
This ethnographic attempt to understand the contexts of production, circulation, and consumption of Superhero Comics will be of interest to comics scholars, students of popular culture, sociology, social anthropology, literature, and the arts.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Indian superhero comics
1 Comics for commerce: The conceptual case for commercial superhero comics and visual storytelling
2 Nagraj – making a superhero
3 Superheroes, myths, and horror fiction
4 The limits of the superhero myth
5 Comic book images
6 Locating the IP: Whose comic is it, anyway?
7 The future of Indian comics
Appendix
References
Index
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