The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique

Madan, A. C.

doi:10.1080/02759527.2018.1525094

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“…Graphic narratives use diverse story-telling strategies and insist "on tackling more social commentary and cultural critique of the nation's lacunae of flaws" (Nayar, 2016, p. 8). Madan (2018) asserts that the Indian graphic novel is "a cultural form; it champions the Indian graphic narrative as "a new representational mode that re-invigorates the canon" of Indian writing in English because of its multivalent representational strategies, and its insistence on offering a cultural critique of the Indian nation (7-8)" (p. 259). Graphic narratives across the world have challenged canonical historical representations and presented a critique of the ideas of nation and citizenship (Speiegelman, 1991;Sacco, 2012;.…”

Section: Political Commentary In Graphic Narratives Of the World And ...mentioning

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Humanising History through Graphic Narratives: Exploring Stories of Home and Displacement from the North-East of India

Das¹,

Abhaya²

2022

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Literature from the North-East has responded to national, global and local issues, including questions on immigration and ethnic violence. They have resisted the colonial framework of representation and have invoked a sense of “cultural and ethnic particularity” (Sarma, 2013). This literature has adopted a multilingual register to respond to 1) patriarchal and 2) ethnonationalist discourses that have a forced and overbearing presence in the everyday lives of people and their stories. These writings evoke an ethno-critical approach that “engages otherness and difference in such a way as to provoke an interrogation of and a challenge” to our familiar realms of experience and is “consistent with a recognition and legitimation of heterogeneity” (Sarma, 2013). Select stories from First Hand (Volume II, 2018) – The Lonely Courtyard (2018), My Name is Jahanara (2018), and A Market Story (2019) by Kumdo Yumnam provide the heterogeneity that is characteristic of the works of literature emerging from the North-East, thereby resisting the homogeneity often indicative of the term ‘North-East’. The analysis will explore how the selected texts negotiate textuality and visuality in a specific manner to present an archive of everyday life that humanises history.

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Section: Political Commentary In Graphic Narratives Of the World And ...mentioning

confidence: 99%