Subverting the Sublime: Ideological Subversion and Racial Stereotypes in Popular Culture

This book provides a historical, cultural, and political phenomenon of the popular animated cartoon Tom and Jerry, and Amar Chitra Katha series and examines the modes in which these popular animated cartoon and comic books help consolidate the position of the dominant class and thus exposes the fundamental relations between cultural power and textual/visual interpretation and the implicit authoritarianism within the hierarchical structure of the society. It also examines how popular cultural artifacts, like cartoons, comic strips and animated cartoons, articulate their position on race and ideology, systematically and artfully reducing the real people, here the subaltern, to abstractions.