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August 25, 2025Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics

Framing the feminine fury: gender performativity through decolonial visuality in select Indian comics

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RGRounak GuptaPBPartha Bhattacharjee

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Overview

Analysis of gender performativity and decolonial visuality in comics, illustrating narratives of Indian middle-class women.

Key Points

  • Decolonial visual styles reveal the traumatised reality of women, highlighting their struggles against gendered norms.
  • Comics narratives 'Someday' and 'Ever After' showcase the invisible and muted feminine self in a patriarchal context.
  • This examination employs a framework of 'pornotroping' and 'coloniality of gender' to understand women's experiences.
  • Narratives confront dominant gender discourses, pointing to possibilities of feminine liberation from ongoing violence.

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Gupta et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af5f13ad7bf08b1eae1fb9https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2550488
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