Аннотация:At first glance, the "Indian graphic novel" has only recently appeared as both a material artifact and a marketing category, and it may look like the confluence of two previously distinct narrative forms: Indian comics and the contemporary Indian novel – the latter especially in its highly visible postcolonial and globalized form, written in English. As such a hybrid, the Indian graphic novel would appear to balance, on one hand, elite literary modes and, on the other, mass cultural images – a combination perhaps akin to the occasional mainstream film adaptation of a work of "serious" Indian fiction. But the Indian graphic novel may in fact be less a melding of now assimilated (if not "native") forms – Indian comics and the Indian novel – or even a "mature" development of the earlier Indian comic, than an appropriation of a format that arrived with – rather than acquired – legitimate artistic credentials.
