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Exploring the work of three publishing houses who publish Superhero Comics, this volume analyses their techniques of narration through open-ended plots, frequent re-boots of the storyline, extended story arcs, and a complex narrative while testing serious socio-political issues in the mode of fantasy.
Roma Chatterji retired as Professor of Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University in 2021, and is currently Visiting Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence. Her publications include Writing Identities: Folk Culture and the Performative Traditions in Purulia, West Bengal (2009); Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (2012); Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India (2019); (with Deepak Mehta) Living with Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007). She has also edited Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance (2014) and (with Deepak Mehta) Riot Discourses (2007).
Amaan Shreyas is Practising Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi. He completed an M.Phil in Sociology with a dissertation on fake news in India at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics and an LLM from Columbia University. Amaan was also an undergraduate Writing Fellow at Ashoka University. He is interested in the circulation of narrative forms in online media ecologies and has published (with Roma Chatterji) "Seriality and Millennial Fandom in the Indian Superhero Comic Nagraj" in the Journal of Graphic Novel and Comics, 2021.
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