
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 |
About the Book
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.
