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Figuring the political: graphic novels on Ambedkar and Phule
S. Anand
The Indian popular cultural industry has largely failed to address the significant issues of caste and the anti-caste movement in Indian society, whose messages have remained confined to ghettoized, lower caste based audiences. However, with its two graphic novels, Navayana has sought to bring the political message to mainstream audiences. “Bhimayana”, a graphic nonfiction work on the life and experiences of the "untouchable" leader B.R. Ambedkar, formulates this message through an innovative aesthetics, with the brilliant art work of two accomplished tribal (gond) artists, Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam. Beginning with Bhimayana, Navayana has sought out audiences who have hitherto overlooked or ignored the significance of Ambedkar and of caste in our society. It throws attention on the ways in which the 'public' has been constituted by relegating questions of caste and figures like Ambedkar to the 'parochial'. "A Gardener in the Waste Land", on J. Phule, the 19th century ideologue of the anti caste movement, associates the story by a contemporary feminist (Sirividya Natarajan), and the art work of a modern urban artist (Aparajita Ninan). During this presentation, S. Anand, publisher of Navayana, will reflect on how and why such radical renderings of these transgressive figures not merely find new publics for the stories it seeks to tell, but also remake the public itself.
Therefore, the discussion by D. Vidal (IRD, CEIAS) and N. Jaoul (CNRS, IRIS) will question the way this initiative helps not only reconfigure the subjectivity of the subaltern citizen, but the democratic meanings of Indian citizenship at large.
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