This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and ways of seeing through the medium of Indian graphic narratives. If seeing in Indian cultures is a mode of knowing then what might we decode and know from the Indian graphic narratives examined here? The book posits that the seeing of post-millennial Indian graphic narratives revolves around a visuality of the inauspicious, complemented by narratives of the same. Examining both form and content across nine Indian, post-millennial graphic narratives, this book will appeal to those working in South Asian visual studies, cultural studies and comics-graphic novel studies more broadly.
1. Publishing Indian Graphic Narratives Post Millennium.- 2. Modes of Visuality in New India.- 3. Visuality: Seeing the Inauspicious.- 4. Identity: Representations of Indianness .- 5. Conclusions: Decoding Current Lines and Future Spaces.
Varugheses original and thought-provoking methodological breakthroughs are particularly evident in her comparisons of post-millennial IGNs with the Nayi Kahani (New Story) movement of post-independence India. & The book is therefore a welcome addition to the increasingly vibrant practice of provincializing cultural studies & in the context of contemporary South Asia. (Shailendra Singh, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, July 7, 2020)
Visuality and Identity in Post-Millennial Indian Graphic Narratives (2017) is a significant contribution to the existing corpus of criticism in the realm of South Asian Visual Studies. & Exploring the inauspicious in graphic narratives in regional languages will be an interesting possibility for researchers. The book is elegantly written and the authors treatment ofthe subject is critical and balanced. & this book is really a useful addition to graphic criticism. (Rajesh V. Nair, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comicslăµ
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