The Indian Graphic Novel : Nation, History and Critique.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the graphic turn in Indian writing in English -- 1 Graphic history -- Humanizing history -- Public history, personal stories -- The documentary and the aesthetic -- Postmemory and graphic history -- 2 Urban graphic -- Uncanny spaces -- Spaces of desire, spaces of vulnerability -- National character and the urban Gothic -- 3 Cultural graphics -- Culture, in and beyond the panel -- The tableau vivant -- Parergons and cultural margins -- Stereoscopy as cultural commentary -- 4 Drawing (on) other histories -- Multiple temporalities, intercultural histories -- Reframing the archive -- Graphic dissonance -- Visualizing the unspeakable -- 5 Graphic satire -- Laughing with graphic contrasts -- Graphic commentary -- Graphic contradictions -- The destruction of personae -- Conclusion: the graphic narrative and critical literacy -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre's engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire.

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