Paper IV: Between History and Mythology: Indian Graphic Narratives

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (H)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60/per sem
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
Unit I

The Indian Graphic Novel

 

Unit II: 
Unit II
  • Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return. London: Pantheon Books and Jonathan Cape, 2003.
  • Hillary L. Chute. ‘Graphic Narrative as Witness: Marjane Satrapi and the Texture of Retracing’, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, Columbia UP: 2010, pp. 135-74.

 

Unit III: 
Unit III

Graphic Novels: Genre and Narration

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva: The Churning of the Ocean

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Amruta Patil, Kari Delhi: Harper Collins, 2008

 

Source Books: 

Suggested Readings:

Nayar, Pramod K. The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique. Routledge, 2017.

Nayar, P. (1970, January 1). The Indian graphic novel and dalit trauma: Semantic scholar. undefined. Retrieved November 19, 2022, from https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Indian-Graphic-Novel-and-Dalit...

Sinha, Ruma. “Aesthetics, Gender, and Canon in Anti-Caste Graphic Narratives, a Gardener in the Wasteland and Bhimayana.” Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America, 2020, pp. 195–211., doi:10.4324/9780429347061-13.

Yadav, Deepali. “Visualising Caste: A Gardener in the Wasteland and the Politics of Graphic Adaptation.” Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia, 2020, pp. 47–58., doi:10.4324/9781003007807-5.

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. Simon Fraser University Library, 2018.

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Trans. Jonathan Cape. London: Vintage, 1993.

Smith, Matthew J., and Randy Duncan. Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods. Routledge, 2012.

Eco, Umberto. The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Eisner, Will. Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative. Tamarac: Poorhouse, 1996.

Hescher, Aschim. Reading Graphic Novels: Genre and Narration. Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1964.

Mikkonen, Kai. “Subjectivity and Style in Graphic Narrative.”From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Ed. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noel Thon. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013.

215 Mitchell, W.J.T. Iconology: Image,Text, Ideology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Noth, Winfried. Handbook of Semiotics. Bloomigton: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return. London: Pantheon Books and Jonathan Cape, 2003.

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023