2008, ISBN: 9783794033942

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Toronto: Copp Clark, 1995. Oversized 224pp including bibliography and index Illustrations. First Edition. Glossy Soft Cover. Fine., Copp Clark, 1995, Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1975. … Mehr…

Toronto: Copp Clark, 1995. Oversized 224pp including bibliography and index Illustrations. First Edition. Glossy Soft Cover. Fine., Copp Clark, 1995, Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1975. Book: Orange binding with gold lettering on spine. Spine ends, corners, and edges well worn. Library stamps on all tanned end pages. Spine is cracked after the copyright leaf and the next to leaves are loose. There are a few pencil marks on the index but the rest of the interior of the book is clean. Jacket: Spine ends are wrinkled with several small chips. Both back corners have 1/4" tears. There is a light plastic protective cover which is pasted to the inside of the boards. 376 pages including the bibliography and index of cartoonists. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library., Contemporary Books, 1975, Cambridge University Press/ Yoda Press, 2008. First edition. Paperback. New. .. .. 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 artefact. 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. During her research the author found that the creators of ACK amalgamated both local art traditions as well as a realist aesthetic borrowed from the calendar art-derivative style of Ravi Varma to produce an evocative yet sober style, appropriate for a largely middle-class, child audience. This was supposedly distant from the “vulgar” Hindi film posters, yet in practice it was completely immersed in the techniques of larger-than-life hyper-representation characteristic of the commercial Hindi film aesthetic. This technique succeeded in furnishing the reader with a visual imaginary of a mythological Hindu past that could at once blend into a real historical continuum, stretching from the ancient past to modern India, rendering myth historical and history mythological. 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. Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. The Serious Comics 2. Uncle Pai and Vaishnav Historiography 3. Signature of Excess 4. Free Spirits: Women in ACK 5. Little History 6. Culture Banking Epilogue Select Bibliography and Further Reading Index Printed Pages: 268., Cambridge University Press/ Yoda Press, 2008, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd, 2008. .. Hardcover. New. .. .. Midnight’s Children, the second novel of Salman Rushdie, was published in 1981. In this epical novel he speaks of many Indians and many versions of reality. High seriousness of the elderly writers, like Raja Rao or R.K. Narayan, is replaced in his fiction by playfulness, comicality and triviality. Midnight’s Children remains an Indian novel in the sense that the author delves deep into Indian psyche and unearths rich ore of ancient indigenous resources like epic, folklore, oral myth and rituals which till date inform the mind and belief system of the millions in a substantial way. To know the mind of the subcontinent one should know the archetypal mythical figure of Ganesh and his large elephantine nose and ears. The urge for largeness or bigness exemplifies one Indian ‘disease’, a desire for the whole. The narrator hero of the novel Midnight’s Children, Saleem Sinai suffers from this Indian disease and proclaims, ‘To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world’. Midnight’s Children remains an impure text because the protagonists are of illegitimate birth and Saleem has four fathers and three mothers in a fairy-tale fashion. Though a post-modern text, the hero Saleem does not suffer from alienation nor does he feel an exile in a society of teeming millions who jostle in and around him. Alienated self is an absurdity in an Indian context where a sensitive soul can’t afford exilic status vis à-vis abundance, multiplicity, plurality, diverse customs and mores which exercise a magnetic spell on his mind. After Rushdie, Indian fiction is not what it was. Midnight’s Children remains a classic of post-colonial Indian writing, a novel of novels. The present book is a modest attempt at understanding the mind and art of Salman Rushdie, with particular reference to his Midnight’s Children. Written in a textbook form, it provides a detailed critical analysis of its major themes, issues, characterization, narrative techniques, style and symbols. Besides, it makes a critical study of the reception of the novel. The model questions included herein will facilitate the quick revision of the entire study. Bibliography and Index will prove useful study-aids in pursuing the study further and easily. Since the novel is prescribed in the English syllabus in the universities of India, both the teachers and the students will find this book extremely useful. Printed Pages: 168., Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd, 2008, Berlin: Verlag Dokumentation, 1971. Wrappers - Bibliographical information about 3831 items concerning comics. One crnr crease. Nice copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 12mo., Verlag Dokumentation, 1971<

ISBN: 3794033949

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Unknown Binding, [EAN: 9783794033942], Verlag Dokumentation, Verlag Dokumentation, Book, [PU: Verlag Dokumentation], Verlag Dokumentation, 1025612, Subjects, 349777011, Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable, 91, Art, Architecture & Photography, 51, Audio Cassettes, 267859, Audio CDs, 67, Biography, 68, Business, Finance & Law, 507848, Calendars, Diaries, Annuals & More, 69, Children's Books, 274081, Comics & Graphic Novels, 71, Computing & Internet, 72, Crime, Thrillers & Mystery, 637262, e-Books, 279254, Fantasy, 62, Fiction, 66, Food & Drink, 275835, Gay & Lesbian, 74, Health, Family & Lifestyle, 65, History, 64, Home & Garden, 63, Horror, 89, Humour, 275738, Languages, 61, Mind, Body & Spirit, 73, Music, Stage & Screen, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 59, Reference, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 88, Romance, 57, Science & Nature, 279292, Science Fiction, 564334, Scientific, Technical & Medical, 60, Society, Politics & Philosophy, 55, Sports, Hobbies & Games, 13384091, Study Books, 83, Travel & Holiday, 266239, Books, 182018031, Regular Size, 182016031, Font Size (format_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books<

ISBN: 3794033949

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Unknown Binding, [EAN: 9783794033942], Verlag Dokumentation, Verlag Dokumentation, Book, [PU: Verlag Dokumentation], Verlag Dokumentation, 1025612, Subjects, 349777011, Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable, 91, Art, Architecture & Photography, 67, Biography, 68, Business, Finance & Law, 507848, Calendars, Diaries, Annuals & More, 69, Children's Books, 274081, Comics & Graphic Novels, 71, Computing & Internet, 72, Crime, Thrillers & Mystery, 62, Fiction, 66, Food & Drink, 275835, Gay & Lesbian, 74, Health, Family & Lifestyle, 65, History, 64, Home & Garden, 63, Horror, 89, Humour, 275738, Languages, 61, Mind, Body & Spirit, 73, Music, Stage & Screen, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 59, Reference, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 88, Romance, 57, Science & Nature, 4034595031, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 564334, Scientific, Technical & Medical, 60, Society, Politics & Philosophy, 55, Sports, Hobbies & Games, 13384091, Study Books, 83, Travel & Holiday, 266239, Books<

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1971, ISBN: 9783794033942

Berlin: Verlag Dokumentation, 1971. Wrappers - Bibliographical information about 3831 items concerning comics. One crnr crease. Nice copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 12mo., Verlag D… Mehr…

Berlin: Verlag Dokumentation, 1971. Wrappers - Bibliographical information about 3831 items concerning comics. One crnr crease. Nice copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 12mo., Verlag Dokumentation, 1971<