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Theorizing the superhero = performativity and politics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Theorizing the superhero/ by Aditya Misra.
Reminder of title:	performativity and politics /
Author:	Miśra, Āditya.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
Description:	xix, 181 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Superheroes in comics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62933-4
ISBN:	9783031629334

Theorizing the superhero = performativity 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

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

1434729
Superheroes in comics.

LC Class. No.: PN6714

Dewey Class. No.: 741.5352

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