Professor Latinx with Dr. Pramod Nayar on The Indian Graphic Novel
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Professor Latinx with Dr. Pramod Nayar on The Indian Graphic Novel. Discussion includes growing up with superhero comics, nonfiction graphic novels, comics about immigration, postcolonial comics, social realism in Indian graphic novels; caste and subaltern oppression; English comics in India creating reading communities; visual and verbal multimodal literacy; autobiography by "nobodies"; cosplay in India; posthumanism; trans-species; ecodystopias; difficulty teaching comics in India because of cost;
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