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This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia,
illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented
explosion of recent interest. A diverse group of scholars from
Asia, Europe, and North America examine aesthetics, politics, and
ideology in sequential art about South Asia and South Asian
America. The book features contributions which address gender
violence; authoritarian politics; caste discrimination;
environmentalism; racism; and urban street art, amongst others. The
unique interdisciplinary span of the volume considers mass popular
comic books as well as the graphic novel. This edited volume would
be of interest to those studying the influence of graphic novels,
graphic narratives, and comic books in South Asia, as well as
researchers interested in what these forms might have to say about
important issues in society. This book was originally published as
a special issue of the South Asian Review journal.
This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia,
illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented
explosion of recent interest. A diverse group of scholars from
Asia, Europe, and North America examine aesthetics, politics, and
ideology in sequential art about South Asia and South Asian
America. The book features contributions which address gender
violence; authoritarian politics; caste discrimination;
environmentalism; racism; and urban street art, amongst others. The
unique interdisciplinary span of the volume considers mass popular
comic books as well as the graphic novel. This edited volume would
be of interest to those studying the influence of graphic novels,
graphic narratives, and comic books in South Asia, as well as
researchers interested in what these forms might have to say about
important issues in society. This book was originally published as
a special issue of the South Asian Review journal.
In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and
cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to
the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the
1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition
migrations shape and influence the political and cultural
imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship
for South Asians in India and its diasporas. Daiya analyzes modern
literature, Bollywood films, Margaret Bourke-White’s photography,
advertising, and print culture to show how they memorialize or
erase refugee experiences. She also uses oral testimonies of
Partition refugees from Hong Kong, South Asia, and North America to
draw out the tensions of the nation-state, ethnic discrimination,
and religious difference. Employing both Critical Refugee Studies
and Feminist Postcolonial Studies frameworks, Daiya traces the
cultural, affective, and political legacies of Partition
migrations. The precarity generated by modern migration and
expressed through public culture prompts a rethinking of how
dominant media represents gendered migrants and refugees. Graphic
Migrations demands that we redraw the boundaries of how we tell the
story of modern world history and the intricately interwoven,
intimate production of statelessness and citizenship across the
world’s communities.
In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and
cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to
the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the
1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition
migrations shape and influence the political and cultural
imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship
for South Asians in India and its diasporas. Daiya analyzes modern
literature, Bollywood films, Margaret Bourke-White’s photography,
advertising, and print culture to show how they memorialize or
erase refugee experiences. She also uses oral testimonies of
Partition refugees from Hong Kong, South Asia, and North America to
draw out the tensions of the nation-state, ethnic discrimination,
and religious difference. Employing both Critical Refugee Studies
and Feminist Postcolonial Studies frameworks, Daiya traces the
cultural, affective, and political legacies of Partition
migrations. The precarity generated by modern migration and
expressed through public culture prompts a rethinking of how
dominant media represents gendered migrants and refugees. Graphic
Migrations demands that we redraw the boundaries of how we tell the
story of modern world history and the intricately interwoven,
intimate production of statelessness and citizenship across the
world’s communities.
Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the
Partition of India, "Violent Belongings" examines transnational
South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian
subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United
States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg.,
Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal
testimonies and journalism represent the violence, migration and
questions of national belonging unleashed by that pivotal event
during which two million people died and sixteen million were
displaced.
In addition to challenging the official narratives of independence
and Partition, these narratives challenge our contemporary
understanding of gender and ethnicity in history and politics.
"Violent Belongings "argues that both male and female bodies, and
heterosexual coupledom, became symbols of the nation in public
life. In the newly independent Indian nation both men and women
were transformed into ideal citizens or troubling bodies,
immigrants or refugees, depending on whether they were ethnically
Hindu, Muslim, Jewish or Sikh. The divisions set in motion during
Partition continue into our own time and account for ethnic
violence in South Asia.
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