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Sculpting the Middle Class: History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha
Author(s): Deepa Sreenivas (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge India
- Publication Date: February 23, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415563100
- ISBN-13: 9780415563109
Book Description
This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th century.
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About the Author
Deepa Sreenivas is Fellow, Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies in Hyderabad, India.
