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Postcolonial Popular Culture in India

Postcolonial Popular Culture in India

$55
Author:Edited by Abin Chakraborty, Ramanuj Konar and Sayan Aich Bhowmik
ISBN 13:9789354424410
Binding:Softcover
Language:English
Year:2025
Pages:280pp.,
Published On:20th January 2025
Subject:Language and literature

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CONTENTS: Introduction – Abin Chakraborty, Rhizomatic Readings: Insights into the Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narrative Scene – E. Dawson Varughese, The ‘Indian’ Superhero and the Discourse of Power: A Study of Narayan Debnath’s Bantul the Great – Rishi Ghosh and Oindrila Mitra, Terrorism, Graphic Novels and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Hero – Puja Sen Majumdar and Rini P. Kujur, Tales from Shining and Sinking India: Configuring the Postcolonial Identities in Indian Chick Lit – Puja Chakraborty, Shakespeare in Indian Political Rhetoric – Suchetana Banerjee, Millennial Women ‘Instapoets’: Online Communities and Subaltern Counter Discourse – Medha Bhadra Chowdhury, Missing Girls Trafficked and Saved: Meaningful Social Change through Digital Gaming in Postcolonial South Asia – Siddhartha Chakraborti, Hybrid Locality and the Glocal Nature of Memes – Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee, Digital Effects in Indian Cinema: A Technological Jujitsu – Mita Bandyopadhyay and Arindam Modak, Representation of ‘Westernisation’ in India in Three Web Series: Permanent Roommates, Little Things and Adulting – Jayati Ganguly, Desirable Femininities as Part of the Hegemonic Nationalist Discourse in Three Contemporary Bollywood Films – Shyaonti Talwar, ‘Postcard From Kashmir’: Representations of the Fractured State in Bollywood Films – Somrita Misra, Tonight, What the Nation Wanted to Know but Never Listened To! ‘Info-Perennis’ and Popular Public Arena – Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Global Desi: Indian Beauty Pageant Winners on the American Stage – Sarbani Banerjee, Home and Away: Refugees, East Bengal FC and Evolving Fandoms in Calcutta – Rajarshi Roy and Shirsho Dasgupta, Contributors.