The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique

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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