India: Compiled and introduced by <b>Shyamala A. Narayan</b>

Narayan, Shyamala A.

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“…If Banerjee's work self-identifies as a "graphic novel", Vishwajyoti Ghosh has never laid claim to the term, despite the fact his now semi-canonical book-length comic, Delhi Calm (2010), has been treated as such by critics (Narayan 2011;Nayar 2015). The comic's prefatory epigraph cites Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Lecture, "Art, Truth and Politics", describing an Orwellian blurring of truth and falsehood by political and media censorship.…”

Section: Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm (2010): Comix As Urban Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and “the right to the city” in Delhi

Davies

2018

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link:https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/21581/ Link to published version: http://dx.This article argues that comics production in India should be configured as a collaborative artistic endeavour that visualizes Delhi's segregationist infrastructure, claiming a right to the city through the representation and facilitation of more socially inclusive urban spaces. Through a discussion of the work of three of the Pao Collective's founding members -Orijit Sen, Sarnath Banerjee and Vishwajyoti Ghosh -it argues that the group, as for other comics collectives in cities across the world, should be understood as a networked urban social movement. Their graphic narratives and comics art counter the proliferating segregation and uneven development of neoliberal Delhi by depicting and diagnosing urban violence. Meanwhile, their collaborative production processes and socialized consumption practices, and the radical comix traditions on which these movements draw (and which are sometimes occluded by the label "Indian Graphic Novel") create socially networked and politically active spaces that resist the divisions marking Delhi's contemporary urban fabric.

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Section: Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm (2010): Comix As Urban Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and “the right to the city” in Delhi

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2018

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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India: Compiled and introduced by Shyamala A. Narayan

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Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and “the right to the city” in Delhi

Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and “the right to the city” in Delhi

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