• ISBN13: 9789390737383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Music, Theatre & Films
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: June 7, 2021
• Pages: 430
• Original Price: INR 1395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: N/A

South Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures brings together eminent as well as new scholarly voices from across disciplines to explore South Asia from a visual standpoint, exploring multiple mediums and multiple ways of seeing, including tarot, film, graphic novels, painting, death pictures, graffiti, and installation art. With an intent to establish conversations between and across disciplines like history, sociology, literature, art history, culture and media studies, the discursivity of visual cultures in framing a South Asian imaginary is attempted. Attention to the production, circulation and consumption of visuals, which recognizes their embeddedness in material and cultural practices, is combined with an in-depth analysis of form, technique and the afterlife of less-examined media/genres. Through this wide-ranging exploration, we ask the compelling question: Is there a South Asian way of seeing?

Amrita Ajay is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. She teaches Shakespeare, Indian English writing, Romanticism and literary theory. She has contributed articles and reviews to popular magazines, journals and textbooks. Her interest in literature and visual arts has evolved into a comprehensive interest in visual language and culture, which are her current subjects of research and writing. Samarth Singhal is pursuing a PhD in English Literature at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at Maitreyi College and Kamala Nehru College at the University of Delhi. His MPhil dissertation discussed the ‘fantastic’ across contemporary Indian mediums. He has published on political cartooning, painting, and detective fiction. Other forthcoming publications include anthology essays on picturebooks, indie comics, twenty-first-century visual satire in India, and contemporary ‘genre fiction’.