Theorizing the Superhero: Performativity and Politics - Aditya Misra - Libros - Springer International Publishing AG - 9783031629358 - 25 de julio de 2025
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Aditya Misra
Theorizing the Superhero: Performativity and Politics

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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’.

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Publicado 25 de julio de 2025
ISBN13 9783031629358
Editores Springer International Publishing AG
Páginas 181
Dimensiones 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   271 g
Lengua Alemán  

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