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3. Visuality: ‘Seeing’ the Inauspicious

verfasst von : E. Dawson Varughese

Erschienen in: Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter focusses on how India is represented inauspiciously in post-millennial Indian graphic narratives through their exploration and depiction of child abuse, the Emergency in 1970s India, class and caste and (socially) conventional ideas of marriage. In analysing two graphic short stories (‘The Photo’, HUSH), moments from Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm and moments from two of Sarnath Banerjee’s graphic novels, this chapter considers the visual language of narrating the inauspicious and how, through such topics, established modes of seeing Indianness are usurped.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Modes of Visuality in New India

Nächstes Kapitel Identity: Representations of ‘Indianness’

Similar to how a scarf would be worn in cold climates in some western cultures. A more ‘traditional’ choice of dupatta draping would be across the front of the body, covering the chest, with the ends of the dupatta over each shoulder or draped over the head with the ends across the front of the body.

Although bangles are often worn as fashion items these days, traditionally they symbolise marriage.

Divine, feminine, creative power.

A ready connection can be made here with Chandamama the richly-illustrated, children’s monthly magazine which began in the late 1940s, originally in Telugu.

See Nalini Natarajan, The Unsafe Sex: the female binary and public violence against women (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016).

See recent (2017) reports of the same: (The Hindustan Times) http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kerala-vicar-arrested-for-raping-minor-who-attended-church-run-computer-classes/story-R6BA4dXZP5UAvZdJw4BWXL.html. (Al Jazeera) http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/indian-woman-cuts-genitals-rapist-hindu-holy-man-170520135655774.html

This appears in Hindi within the speech balloon; the translation is given by the author at the foot of the panel in which it appears.

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Titel: Visuality: ‘Seeing’ the Inauspicious
verfasst von: E. Dawson Varughese
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-69489-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-69490-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69490-0_3