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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: Nayar2016a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Bhimayana", "King", Anand. S., Anderson. Ho Che, Autobiography, Canada, Comic biography, Ethnicity, India, Natarajan. Srividya, Vyam. Durgabai, Vyam. Subhash Creators: Nayar Collection: Biography |
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Attachments | URLs https://muse.jhu.edu/article/633727, https://www.academ ... cs_Auto_biography_ |
Abstract |
“In the midst of the memoir boom of the late twentieth century, a sub-genre in a wholly new medium made its presence felt: the graphic memoir and auto/biography. Using Ho Che Anderson’s King (1993–2002, published in a single edition in 2010) about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and S. Anand and Srividya Natarajan’s Bhimayana (2011, with art by Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam), about the Indian social reformer, maker of the Indian Constitution, and leader of the so-called “untouchables” (“lower-castes” in the Hindu social order, now called “Dalits”), Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, I will argue that graphic auto/biography offers a new mode in which to talk about social issues like racism and caste-based oppression.”
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