Hero and Hero-Making Across Genres

Amar Singh is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Mahila Mahavidyalaya (MMV), Banaras Hindu University, India. He has completed his doctoral research on Hyperrealism and Christopher Nolan’s Cinematic Texts in 2016 from Banaras Hindu University. At present he is working as a post-doctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. His research interest areas are English Literature, Film Studies and Popular Culture.Shipra Tholia is Assistant Professor at the Department of German Studies, Banaras Hindu University, India. She has completed her M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is currently pursuing her doctoral research from Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany as a German Academic Exchange Service/ DAAD scholar. Her research interest areas are Media Studies, Narratology, German Language and Literature.Pravin K Patel is Assistant Professor of English, Mahila Mahavidyalaya (MMV), Banaras Hindu University, India. He received his Doctorate in English from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. His areas of interest are medical humanities and English literature.

• Introduction PART 1: Hero(es) across Traditions 1. The Hero – on Closer Inspection a Fool 2. Udaaseeno Mahabalaha: Displacement of the Heroic in the Mnemocultures of India 3. The Other Side of Heroism: Construction and Deconstruction of the Heroic in German Literature on Greece’s Struggle for Independence in works by Wilhelm Müller, Friedrich Hölderlin and E.T.A. Hoffmann4. Transformed Heroes: The Bīr Bābās and their Religio-Cultural Metamorphosis PART II: Hero(es) across Fictions 5. Folktale’s Hero in the Post-Truth World 6. How to Live (Happily) Ever After: Heroic Selflessness in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales 7. The Unheroic Hero in Heinrich Böll’s Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort 8. Incompetent Heroism: Revisiting the Image of the Hero in Thomas Brüssig’s Heroes like Us PART III: Cinematic Hero(es) and Beyond 9. Meet the Real Protagonists of Everyday Life 10. Transgressing the Borders of Space and Time the Heroism of the Pilot Joseph Cooper in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar 11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Crises of a Hero in Love PART IV: Making/Unmaking of Hero(es) across Media and Culture 12. Daredevil Philosophy: Dean Potter's "When Dogs Fly" 13. Of Nation and Masculinity in Bollywood Sports Biopics: Recontextualizing Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Dangal 14. The Representation of Dalit Women Heroes in Nalini Jameela’s The Autobigraphy of a Sex Worker and Yashica Dutt’s Coming out as a Dalit 15. The Hero and the Other: The Making and Unmaking of the Heroes across Cultures