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H-ASIA April 5, 2007 Research on Indian Comics (2 responses) ********************************** 1) From: "Susan S Wadley" <sswadley@syr.edu> Karline McLain has a dissertation out of U. of Texas a couple of year ago on Indian comics.... Susan S. Wadley Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies Syracuse University 2) From: "Kajri Jain" <kajri.jain@gmail.com> As far as I know the key references on Indian comics all deal with the key Indian comic book series, *Amar Chitra Katha*: John Stratton Hawley, 'The Saints Subdued: Domestic Virtue and National Integration in *Amar Chitra Katha'*, and Frances W. Pritchett, 'The World of Amar Chitra Katha', both in Lawrence Babb and Susan Wadley (eds),* Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia*, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. Nandini Chandra's book-length study, *The Classic Popular: Amar Chitra Katha *, is forthcoming from Yoda Press, Delhi. *Amar Chitra Katha* has a website at www.*amar**chitra**katha*.com<http://www.amarchitrakatha.com>. If it's salient to your project, for a broader genealogy of narrative images in India you could look at: Jyotindra Jain, *Picture Showmen: Insight into the Narrative Tradition in Indian Art*, Marg Publications, 1998. Then again, there's the question of what constitutes an 'Indian' comic. While *Amar Chitra Katha* arguably emerged from a nationalist sensibility, quickly finding a market in the diaspora, more recently Virgin Comics has come out with a series of comics based on Indian mythology, produced in Bangalore, with titles such as *The Sadhu*, *Devi*, *Virulents* and *Ramayan 3392 AD: The Mahavinaash Age*. These products, coming out of a partnership formed in 2006 between Virgin moghul Richard Branson, spiritual entrepreneur Deepak Chopra and the crossover Bollywood/Hollywood filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (a heady cocktail indeed!) are pitched at the kind of transnational/transcultural audience for comics/graphic novels, SFX movies, animation and digital gaming that has been avidly consuming Japanese *manga*. If there's any scholarly work on this recent phenomenon, I'd like to hear about it too! Kajri Jain Departments of Film Studies and Visual Arts University of Western Ontario ****************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: listserv@h-net.msu.edu with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
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