Weaving the story, pulling at the strings: Hindu mythology and feminist critique in two graphic novels by South Asian women

Studying race in the field of South Asian religions

“…I have drawn from transnational scholarship on race, such as Shope's (2007; 2017; 2019) research on the circulation of blackface and jazz music in early 20th century India and Saldhana's (2007) study on the “viscosity of race,” domestic and foreign tourism, and laboring bodies in Goa. Junior scholars in South Asian Diaspora Studies are taking on issues of race informed by Indigenous and Black feminisms, whether in Patel's (2016; 2019) research on race, caste, indigeneity, and questions of solidarity; Thangaraj's (2015; 2017) research on South Asian American masculinity, sport, and anti‐Blackness in South Asian American communities; Krishnamurti's (2013; 2019) work on Canadian Hindus, comics, and settler colonialism; or Upadhyay's (2019a; 2019b) articles on race, settler colonialism, and queer theory. I have benefited immensely from hearing the range of papers presented at Amherst's International Conference, “Caste and Race: Reconfiguring Solidarities The Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B.R.…”