03264nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001600186072002300202072001500225100008300240245010300323250001800426264007900444300004300523336002600566337002600592338003600618347002400654505037500678520126901053650003502322650002802357650002802385650002002413650003502433650002802468650002602496710003402522773002602556776003602582776003602618776003602654856004602690912001402736912001502750999001702765978-3-031-62933-4DE-He21320251030112647.0cr nn 008mamaa240724s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316293349978-3-031-62933-47 a10.1007/978-3-031-62933-42doi 4aB790-5802 7aHPC2bicssc 7aPHI0310002bisacsh 7aQDH2thema1 aMisra, Aditya.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98119610aTheorizing the Superheroh[electronic resource] :bPerformativity and Politics /cby Aditya Misra.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIX, 181 p. 5 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Re-thinking the Superhero: A Concept in the Making -- Chapter 2: A Tussle with the Muscle: Narayan Debnath’s Bantul the Great -- Chapter 3: The Shah of Blah Kills the Tiger by Words: Premendra Mitra’s Ghanada -- Chapter 4: Mapping the Postcolonial Genius: Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku -- Chapter 5: Madness of Speech: Truth, Power and the Birbal Way.  aThis 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’. Aditya Misra, Ph.D., is an independent scholar who has published essays and reviews in journals such as South Asian Review, Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing, and Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, among others. 0aContinental Philosophy.966476 0aPopular Culture.957605 0aEthnologyxAsia.966900 0aCulture.95915914aContinental Philosophy.96647624aPopular Culture.95760524aAsian Culture.9669022 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303162932708iPrinted edition:z978303162934108iPrinted edition:z978303162935840uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62933-4  aZDB-2-REP  aZDB-2-SXPR  c61874d61874