Between subjects, between mediums: an artist's sketch of an activist's life.
This paper focuses on the life narrative of C K Janu, a prominent Adivasi activist from Kerala, a state in Southern India, written by the artist Bara Bhaskaran in 2002. I read the visual and verbal composition of Janu's life narrative in relation to Bhaskaran's aesthetic practices. I foreground the...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 316 - 336 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=152850874&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 152850874 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14649373 B8U jtl: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies issn: 14649373 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: September 2021 vid: 22 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 152850874 10.1080/14649373.2021.1962073 ppf: 316 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 3.7MB tig: atl: Between subjects, between mediums: an artist's sketch of an activist's life. aug: au: Mokkil, Navaneetha affil: School of Social Sciences, Center for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India su: Janu, C. K. Adivasis Bhaskaran, Bara Aesthetics & politics Narratives sug: subj: Janu, C. K. Adivasis Bhaskaran, Bara Aesthetics & politics Narratives keyword: aesthetics and politics Kerala life narratives marginality mediation portraiture Representation subjectivity ab: This paper focuses on the life narrative of C K Janu, a prominent Adivasi activist from Kerala, a state in Southern India, written by the artist Bara Bhaskaran in 2002. I read the visual and verbal composition of Janu's life narrative in relation to Bhaskaran's aesthetic practices. I foreground the process through which a visual artist's mediation shapes this book rather than presuming direct access to the narrator's voice. The unfinished strokes of Bhaskaran's sketches become a compelling entry-point to reflect on the exchanges through which life narratives acquire a public form. Thus, I argue that this narrative revises conceptions of authorship and subjectivity by bringing to the fore the constitutive relation between the subject and her surroundings, the narrator and her interlocutor. This paper demonstrates that in order to produce perceptive accounts of multiple forms of life narratives, which we encounter as readers today, it is important to turn our attention to the material practices of representation. The linkages between political subjects and narrative forms can be studied only if we reflect on the intermedial exchanges through which cultural texts are assembled. This paper aims to intervene in the debates on life narratives and marginality by moving away from the frameworks of veracity, authenticity and direct access. It opens up for analysis the political stakes of practices of book making that brings together visual and verbal mediums. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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