Humanising History through Graphic Narratives: Exploring Stories of Home and Displacement from the North-East of India
- Title
- Humanising History through Graphic Narratives: Exploring Stories of Home and Displacement from the North-East of India
- Creator
- Das R.; Abhaya N.B.
- Description
- 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. 2022 Aesthetics Media Services. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol-14, No. 2
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Aesthetics Media Services
- Subject
- Graphic Novels of North-East; Humanising Narratives
- Coverage
- Das R., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India; Abhaya N.B., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India
- Rights
- All Open Access; Gold Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 9752935
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Das R.; Abhaya N.B., “Humanising History through Graphic Narratives: Exploring Stories of Home and Displacement from the North-East of India,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/15126.