29,78 €
33,09 €
-10% with code: EXTRA
Remaking the Citizen for New Times
29,78 € 
- We will send in 10–14 business days.
An accessible cultural and literary critique of the right wing in India. How does orthodoxy maintain its power over culture? In Remaking the Citizen for New Times, Deepa Sreenivas explores how the Amar Chitra Katha, a widely read comic series started in 1967 in India, influenced the historical and national consciousness of young readers in a conservative direction. Tacitly blaming Nehruvian welfarism of the time for the moral decline of the nation, the Amar Chitra Katha emerged as a literary a…
33.09
/images/books/13855116/9781803092874.jpg)
- Author: Deepa Sreenivas
- Publisher: Seagull Books
- ISBN-10: 1803092874
- ISBN-13: 9781803092874
- Format: 11.9 x 18.6 x 1.2 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
An accessible cultural and literary critique of the right wing in India. How does orthodoxy maintain its power over culture? In Remaking the Citizen for New Times, Deepa Sreenivas explores how the Amar Chitra Katha, a widely read comic series started in 1967 in India, influenced the historical and national consciousness of young readers in a conservative direction. Tacitly blaming Nehruvian welfarism of the time for the moral decline of the nation, the Amar Chitra Katha emerged as a literary articulation of the Indian right's Hindu-nationalist ideology in a modern, bourgeois guise. To renew Hindutva hegemony, the comic series gave orthodox ideas a new sheen, both in its form and content, merging Western comic styles with Indian visual storytelling traditions on the one hand, and combining mythological characters with political figureheads into harmonious narratives on the other--making it difficult to sift history from myths and legends. Sreenivas deftly argues that these mythological-political tales emphasized the instructive rather than the informative potential of history, encouraging neoliberal values such as merit and hard work while ignoring caste or class as systemic issues.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
29,78 €
33,09 €
We will send in 10–14 business days.
The promotion ends in 23d.06:16:06
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Deepa Sreenivas
- Publisher: Seagull Books
- ISBN-10: 1803092874
- ISBN-13: 9781803092874
- Format: 11.9 x 18.6 x 1.2 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
An accessible cultural and literary critique of the right wing in India. How does orthodoxy maintain its power over culture? In Remaking the Citizen for New Times, Deepa Sreenivas explores how the Amar Chitra Katha, a widely read comic series started in 1967 in India, influenced the historical and national consciousness of young readers in a conservative direction. Tacitly blaming Nehruvian welfarism of the time for the moral decline of the nation, the Amar Chitra Katha emerged as a literary articulation of the Indian right's Hindu-nationalist ideology in a modern, bourgeois guise. To renew Hindutva hegemony, the comic series gave orthodox ideas a new sheen, both in its form and content, merging Western comic styles with Indian visual storytelling traditions on the one hand, and combining mythological characters with political figureheads into harmonious narratives on the other--making it difficult to sift history from myths and legends. Sreenivas deftly argues that these mythological-political tales emphasized the instructive rather than the informative potential of history, encouraging neoliberal values such as merit and hard work while ignoring caste or class as systemic issues.
Reviews