01982nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800990007608200140017510000210018910000220021024500880023226000370032030000250035736500090038252013000039165000190169165000170171065000170172770000200174420260703112739.0260514b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781041003694  a: Brijwasi Book Distributorsb: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhic: BW/000552d: 7/5/2026  a741.5 XHA  aChatterji, Roma.  a; Shreyas, Amaan.  aSuperheroes in Indian Comicsb: Deliberations from Anthropology/c /Roma Chatterji.  a, New Yorkb: Routledgec, 2026.  aviii, 212p.c: 24cm.  b3621  aThere 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.  a Indian Comics  aSuperheroes   aAnthropology  aRoma Chatterji.