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020			_a9781041003694
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000552 _d: 7/5/2026
082			_a741.5 XHA
100			_aChatterji, Roma.
100			_a; Shreyas, Amaan.
245			_aSuperheroes in Indian Comics _b: Deliberations from Anthropology/ _c /Roma Chatterji.
260			_a, New York _b: Routledge _c, 2026.
300			_aviii, 212p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b3621
520			_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.
650			_a Indian Comics
650			_aSuperheroes
650			_aAnthropology
700			_aRoma Chatterji.
942			_cBOOK
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