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Theorizing the superheroperformativity and politics /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Theorizing the superheroby Aditya Misra.
其他題名:	performativity and politics /
作者:	Miśra, Āditya.
出版者:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
面頁冊數:	xix, 181 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Superheroes in comics.
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62933-4
ISBN:	9783031629334$q(electronic bk.)

Theorizing the superheroperformativity and politics /
Miśra, Āditya.

Theorizing the superheroperformativity and politics /[electronic resource] :by Aditya Misra. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xix, 181 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1: Re-thinking the Superhero: A Concept in the Making -- Chapter 2: A Tussle with the Muscle: Narayan Debnath's Bantul the Great -- Chapter 3: The Shah of Blah Kills the Tiger by Words: Premendra Mitra's Ghanada -- Chapter 4: Mapping the Postcolonial Genius: Satyajit Ray's Professor Shonku -- Chapter 5: Madness of Speech: Truth, Power and the Birbal Way.

This book uses contemporary continental philosophy to develop an alternative theory of the superhero to the one currently offered by the comic book industry and comic book studies. Studying superheroes from South Asian pop culture, this book questions the definition of the superhero and the allegedly sacrosanct nature of its origin and identity in comic books. This book looks at the superhero as a performative figure and explores how the superheroic imagination opens up diverse modes of creative thinking. Superheroes studied in this book include Narayan Debnath's Bantul the Great (comics), Premendra Mitra's Ghanashyam Das or Ghanada (Tall Tale), Satyajit Ray's Professor Trilokeswar Shonku (science fiction/fantasy fiction), and one of the nine gems of Emperor Akbar's court, Raja Birbar or Birbal (mediaeval Indian history) By virtue of perpetual reconfiguration of its elements, the book argues, the concept of the superhero makes itself 'always new' and it is always already 'open onto elsewhere'. Aditya Misra, Ph.D., is an independent scholar who has published essays and reviews in journals such as South Asian Review, Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing, and Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, among others.

ISBN: 9783031629334$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-62933-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

954711
Superheroes in comics.

LC Class. No.: PN6714

Dewey Class. No.: 741.5352

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