Virgin Comics: Hindu Narrative Themes for a Cosmopolitan Audience
Virgin Comics (subsequently known as Liquid Comics and Graphic India) was founded in 2006 as a comic book publisher that aimed to market Indian comics to a global, cosmopolitan audience. This article focuses on their Shakti line, which draws upon Hindu narratives about gods, goddesses, and holy peop...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Saskatchewan
2022
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Année: 2022, Volume: 34, Numéro: 3, Pages: 172-189 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Liquid Comics (Corporations)
/ India
/ Hinduism
/ Comic strip
/ Interculturality
/ Intertextuality
/ Secularization
/ Globalization
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse BK Hindouisme KBM Asie ZG Sociologie des médias; médias numériques; Sciences de l'information et de la communication |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Cosmopolitanism
B Ramayan B Liquid Comics B Globalization B Transnationalism B Virgin Comics B Deepak Chopra B Hinduism B graphic India B India |
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| Résumé: | Virgin Comics (subsequently known as Liquid Comics and Graphic India) was founded in 2006 as a comic book publisher that aimed to market Indian comics to a global, cosmopolitan audience. This article focuses on their Shakti line, which draws upon Hindu narratives about gods, goddesses, and holy people. In order to market these narratives, Virgin Comics unsettled them from their contexts using creative forms of transcultural intertextuality and secularizing apologetic. The resulting product illustrates the tensions of globalization in the early 2000s: optimism about a shrinking world together with the pressures of global financescapes and the harbingers of resurgent nationalisms. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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