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Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives
This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and ‘ways of seeing’ through the medium of Indian graphic narratives. If seeing in Indian cultures is a mode of knowing then what might we decode and know from the Indian graphic narratives examined here? The book posits that the ‘seeing’ of post-millennial Indian graphic narratives revolves around a visuality of the inauspicious, complemented by narratives of the same. Examining both form and content across nine Indian, post-millennial graphic narratives, this book will appeal to those working in South Asian visual studies, cultural studies and comics-graphic novel studies more broadly.
Documenting Trauma in Comics
Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts? The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generative force that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts. Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel wr...
The Indian Graphic Novel
This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre’s engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretical framework, the volume closely examines major texts such as The Harappa Files, Delhi Calm, Kari, Bhimayana, Gardener in the Wasteland, Pao Anthology, and authors and illustrators including Sarnath Banerjee, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Durgabai Vyam, Amrutha Patil, Srividya Natarajan and others. It also explores — using key illustrations from the texts — critical themes like contested and alternate histories, urban realities, social exclusion, contemporary politics, and identity politics. A major intervention in Indian writing in English, this volume will be of great importance to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature, cultural studies, art and visual culture, and sociology.
India at 70
India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives. With nine contributions by a range of international scholars, it interrogates 1947 and its complex, bloody aftermath in historical, political and aesthetic terms. This original collection conceives of Indian independence in bold and innovative ways by moving across national boundaries and disciplinary, geopolitical and linguistic landscapes; and by examining a wealth of under-researched primary material, both recent and historical. India at 70 is a unique and indispensable contribution to Indian history, literary and cultural studies.
La cucina verde
Die italienische Küche ist gerade für Gemüseliebhaber ein wahres Schlaraffenland. Carlo Bernasconis ausgesuchte Rezeptkreationen, die oft auf Erinnerungen an die Küchentradition seiner italienischen Familie zurückgehen, gepaart mit Larissa Bertonascos farbenfrohen Illustrationen, machen dieses Buch zu einer genussreichen Reise durch den italienischen Gemüsegarten. Im sonnenverwöhnten Italien gedeihen rund ums Jahr zahllose Gemüsesorten, die von Bozen bis Palermo auf vielfältige Weise zubereitet werden. Von Artischocke bis Zucchini hat Carlo Bernasconi insgesamt achtzehn Gemüsesorten ausgewählt, mit denen in Italien gern gekocht wird. Er erklärt die Bedeutung und Verwendung der einzelnen Gemüse und lässt dabei auch persönliche Erinnerungen an die Küche seiner Nonna und seiner Mamma einfließen. Die sinnlichen Illustrationen von Larissa Bertonasco fangen den bunten Reigen der Gemüsesorten ein und wecken Italien-Sehnsüchte. Vor das Kochen und Schmausen hat sie den Augenschmaus gesetzt.
Behindert werden? Behindert sein?
Wider die Angst verrückt zu werden Ein Grund, psychisch Behinderte auszugrenzen, ist die Angst, es könnte einen selber treffen. Je tiefer der Graben zwischen "normal" und "verrückt" desto sicherer fühlt man sich als "Normaler". Heike Oldenburg, selbst seit Jahrzenten Betroffene, hilft, diesen Graben der Angst weniger tief zu machen. Sie porträtiert 29 Menschen mit psychischen Behinderungen von der frühen Neuzeit (1479) bis jetzt. Sie lässt uns daran teilhaben, wie diese Menschen zwischen sozialer Umwelt und Krankheit ihren Weg suchten, welche Niederlagen, aber auch, welche Erfolge sie dabei erlebten/erleben. Als Beispiel sei Dorothea Buck genannt, der sich Frau Oldenburg in besonderer...
Keywords for Comics Studies
Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.0Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms l...
The Health Humanities in German Studies
The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to surveying the current critical terrain in unparalleled depth, it also explores future directions that these fields may take. Organized around seven sections representing key areas of focus for both disciplines, this book provides important new insights into the intersections between Health Humanities, German Studies, and other fields of inquiry that have been gaining prominence over the past decade in academic and public discourse. In their contributions, the authors engage with disability studies, critical race studies, gender/embodiment studies, trauma studies, as well as animal/environmental studies.
Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative
Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function. Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. Informed by the scholarship of Dwight Conquergood and his model for performance praxis, this collection of essays makes links between these seemingly disparate areas of study to open new avenues of research for comics and graphic narratives. An international team of authors offer a detailed analysis of new and classical gr...
