Seeing Indian Women: Comics, Graphic Novels and Transmedia Illustrations (South Asian Literature in Focus)

Although, for years, women were portrayed as one-dimensional beings, Indian graphic novels have come a long way from solely idealizing the Hindu/Vedic past to contemporary digital comics with augmented reality, where individual stories of women are shared and politicized.Drawing on a decade of women’s mis/representation across comics, graphic novels, and digital comics, the book would masterfully examine how iconography materializes the intersections between gender and culture in a multiplicity of context including spatial, artistic, historical, and commercial.Within the domain of popular culture, the genre of comics and graphic novels has become a booming publishing industry that has increasingly become more pronounced and arguably a promising avenue for exploring myriad concerns.Centering the correlation between the aesthetics of gender representation and consumer-material practices that has shaped this literature’s new, enduring, and potent form, this book demonstrates how this new