In Cancer Vixen, the graphic memoir by Marisa Marchetto, the artist draws a splash page where she depicts herself sitting on the surface of the earth, looking up at a host of victims on a cloud in space. The victims are explaining to her how their cancers might have been caused by “toxic garbage,” “jet…
Author: Meenakshi Srihari
Meenakshi Srihari teaches English at NIT, Andhra Pradesh in India. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Hyderabad in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation focused on auto/biographical representations of cancer across media, seeking to demonstrate how the illness narrative juxtaposes personal, political and theoretical strands to form an assemblage. Her research interests include graphic medicine and transmedial storyworlds. She is also a Project Assistant with the Indian Writing in English Online project and the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the Department of English, the University of Hyderabad.
‘Fictions of (In)Dignity’: Graphic Public Health from India
‘Fictions of (In)Dignity’: Graphic Public Health from India It is hard to imagine a viable approach to social justice today that does not rely on the language of human rights. Elizabeth S. Anker (2012) In this essay, I examine two graphic narratives collected in Vidyun Sabhaney’s edited anthology, First Hand Graphic Narratives from India: Volume…
Doodling Rukhmabai Raut: Lady Doctors and the Graphic Imagination
The 22nd of November, 2022, marked Rukhmabai Raut’s 153rd birthday. In 2007, Google celebrated the birth anniversary of one of the first practicing women physicians in India with a Google Doodle. It showed a woman in a saree, stethoscope slung around her neck, against a brilliant, blazing sun, announcing perhaps a new dawn. In the…
The Self-Obituary: Metaleptic Ruptures and Posthumous Care
— Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture/I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident/the art of losing’s not too hard to master/though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. Elizabeth Bishop, “The Art of Losing” These lines from Bishop’s poem immediately encapsulate for this essay two points. That losing (specifically a loved…