| Popis: |
In this chapter, we examine how three different graphic narratives from the anthology This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition (2016) contribute to puncturing the silence that has long obscured the violence accompanying the partition of the Indian subcontinent. We argue how these narratives, in their collaborative authoring and through their textual and aesthetic strategies, defy artificial borders to create a new collective memory culture, one that seeks to confront and thus to heal a suppressed social trauma that continues to haunt these nations. Through explorations of genre, narrative voice, and aesthetic representation, we demonstrate how these graphic narratives challenge violence, whether of colonial historiography or postcolonial state policy, and how comics can effectively portray displacement and resistance. The resurrection of old memories and the sharing of traumatic testimonies also build empathetic solidarities that counter the habitual and mutual othering that informs antagonistic national histories, thereby inviting the recognition of shared pasts and hope for shared futures. |
