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Appupen’s Posthuman Gothic: The Snake and the Lotus

Pages 70-85 | Received 02 Jun 2018, Accepted 31 Jul 2018, Published online: 01 Nov 2018

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  • Auerbach, Nina. 1997. Our Vampires, Ourselves. Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press.
  • Mathur, Suchitra. 2010. “From Capes to Snakes: The Indianization of the American Superhero.” In Comics as a Nexus of Cultures: Essays on the Interplay of Media, Disciplines and International Perspectives, edited by Mark Beringer, Jochen Ecke and Gideon Haberkorn, 175–186. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
  • Mathur, Suchitra. 2013. “The Superhero Goes Native ‘Translating’ Spider-Man for an Indian Audience.” In Translation and Postcolonialities: Transactions across Languages and Cultures, edited by Vijay Guttal and Suchitra Mathur. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan.
  • Mathur, Suchitra. 2014. “Graphic Adaptations/Textual Adaptations: Reading Feluda in English.” In Not for Academics Only: Translating the Everyday Wor(l)d, edited by Mini Chandran and Suchitra Mathur, 48–61. New Delhi: Routledge.
  • Mehta, Suhaan. 2010. “Wondrous Capers: The Graphic Novel in India.” In Multicultural Comics: From ‘Zap’ to ‘Blue Beetle’, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, 173–188. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. 2012a. “The Gothic Turn in the Indian Graphic Novel: Paranoiac Aesthetics in Amruta Patil’s Kari.” Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies 21: 15–21.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. 2012b. “Towards a Postcolonial Critical Literacy: Bhimayana and the Indian Graphic Novel.” Studies in South Asian Film and Media 3 (1): 1–22. doi: 10.1386/safm.3.1.3_1.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. 2013. “The Rhetoric of Silence/ing: Hush.” Margins 3: 32–44;
  • Nayar, Pramod K. 2015a. “‘Trust a Few, Fear the Rest’: The Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution.” In The Palgrave Companion to Posthumanism in Film and Television, edited by Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D. Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell, 380–390. London: Palgrave.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. 2015b. “Postcolonial Demo-graphics: Traumatic Realism in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm.” In Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities, edited by Binita Mehta and Pia Mukherjee, 131–141. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. 2015c. “The Indian Graphic Novel and Dalit Trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland.” In Dalit Writing: In, Out and Beyond, edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Joshil Abraham, 320–338. New Delhi: Routledge.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. 2018. “South of the Graphics: Mandela, Gandhi, and Telling Lives.” In The Global South and Literature, edited by Russell West-Pavlov, 235–249. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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