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Abstract
The idea for this seminar began last year when during a
conversation about Indian sci-fi films came up. It started out as a joke ‘would
aliens in these films go dancing around trees as they invaded the country?’
I will be looking at the Amar Chitia Katha (eternal
picture stories) comics, their origins and content. Issues of a longer more
robust culture are often cited for India’s romanticism of its past. Its
historical fiction seems inevitable as compared to America a new nation or is
it? The subtext of this fiction is reveals what lies at the heart of these stories
and the tropes they employ.
Sonia Soans, a researcher at MMU, will be giving a talk on Indian comics and how they reflect the concerns of the society that produced them. Looking at the Amar Chitra Katha series in particular, her talk will deal with the way that Indian comics reflect stereotypical ideas about the distant past and contemporary anxieties.
Venue - Room G35 in the new business school. The room has disability access and accessible restrooms. http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/travel/allsaints/Parking around the area is usually free from 6.00 pm onwards.
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The event is free we need to know approximately how many people are coming.
The event will be livestreamed follow the link http://new.livestream.com/accounts/7978295/events/2927644
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