MUSE INDIA
Special Feature: Indian Graphic Novels
Issue 110 (Jul-Aug 2023)
Curated by: Dr Sapna Dogra
Last date of Submission: 20 August 2023
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Indian graphic novels are becoming an integral part of the canon of Indian Writing in English (IWE). Ever since the publication of River of Stories (1994) by Orijit Sen, graphic novels in India have come a long way. The more recent graphic novelists like Amruta Patil, Sarnath Banerjee, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Srividya Natrajan, S. Anand and Malik Sajad have been very engaging with the readers. As Pramod Nayar says in Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique (2016) that these graphic writings add “to the existing corpus of texts in Indian Writing in English a new representational mode that re-invigorates the canon, the form and the themes”.

Submissions are invited for the Feature on “Indian Graphic Novels” with Dr Sapna Dogra as Editor.

Contributions are invited on topics such as the representation of the following in Indian graphic novels:

• Life writing
• Marginalization/the marginalized
• Coloniality, and/or postcolonialism
• Diaspora and community healing, formation, and memory
• Ecocriticism/Ecofeminism
• Representation of stereotypes
• Caste/Class/Sexuality and Gender
• Violence and Politics
• Retelling of myths
• Representation of Disability
• pedagogical approaches to graphic novels
• Social Impact and possible future of graphic novels
• Indian graphic novels in international context
• Diversity, representation, and intersectionality
• Adaptation and appropriation of Indian graphic novels
• Visual / Creative techniques in Indian graphic novels

You may submit:

• Articles (Max. 4000 words)
• Author Interviews (Max. 3000 words)
• Book Reviews (Max. 1000 words)
• Review Articles (Max. 3000 words)
• Excerpts from Graphic Novels

Contributions should include:

• Full name
• E-mail address
• Institutional affiliation
• Title of the paper/review/folktale/interview
• 200-word abstract (for articles)
• Bio-note and Photograph of the author
• The writings should be in English with a declaration that they are the contributor’s original, and exclusively for Muse India and not published anywhere else.

The deadline for contributions is 20 Aug 2023.

My email id: sapnardm@gmail.com

Phone number: 9818077397

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