ISBN 9782910791582|Paperback with flaps|260 pages|2008|Yoda Press
The Classic Popular: Amar Chitra Katha (1967-2007) is a provocative and cleverly argued monograph, this book is a must-read not only for scholars and students of modern Indian history, contemporary culture and politics, but also for everyone who grew up with, loved or hated Amar Chitra Katha.
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For all those who grew up in seventies and eighties middle-class India, Amar Chitra Katha, or ACK as it was popularly referred to among friends, was an important influence if not an iconic cultural artifact. Published at a time when ACK appears to be on the verge of a second lease of life, this compelling new book draws our attention to the stimulating and troubling potentials of Amar Chitra Katha as a force in modern Indian history. Based on a reading of visual practices and the complicated art history informing the comics, the book delves into core issues of communalism, history writing and the ways in which middle-class India negotiates the consumption of products of popular culture to suit its ideological moorings.
A provocative and cleverly argued monograph, this book is a must-read not only for scholars and students of modern Indian history, contemporary culture and politics, but also for everyone who grew up with, loved or hated Amar Chitra Katha.
Author:
Nandini Chandra
ISBN:
9782910791582
Binding:
Paperback with flaps
Pages:
260
Year of Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Yoda Press
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
Nandini Chandra teaches English at Hansraj College, Delhi University. Currently she is a visiting assistant professor at the Asian Languages and Literature Department, University of Minnesota. The book ‘The Classic Popular Amar Chitra Katha, 1967-2007’, according to her, grew out of her M.Phil dissertation and many conversations that sprung around her research of 12 years.
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