Revival of Gond Art Form through Graphic Novel in Bhimyana: Experience of Untouchability

Abstract

rividya Natarajan's graphic novel Bhimyana: Experience of Untouchability portrays the incidents in the Life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. The representation of the life of Dr. BRA in this graphic novel uses blotches, tempera colours and mainly in Indian origin art form. Prior pictures, sketches, illustrations or graphics were a medium for telling the untold and unwritten tells of time, place and manner as well as downtrodden voices. 20th-century literature had already broken the conventional way of expression. WWI and II excavate the inhuman behaviour and brutality of mankind, which pushed the novel experiment in literature and visual arts simultaneously. Emotions and affections busted out in the work where writers and creators exposed the surrealistic life in front of the audience. Here in this paper researcher is going to epitomize the downtrodden out-casted and discriminated voices. The novelty of graphic narratives breaks the conventions of unconventionality of the 20th century and narrators have been telling life through their own point-of-view, and a portrait of the 4th dimension. The amalgamation of words and images was previously limited to comics and for entertainment purposes only. (Add reference)A typical style of writing/illustrating comics and graphic narratives was replaced by Gond art; a tribal art painting practised by one of the largest tribes in India. The use of tribal art form, the regional colour scheme and the biographical sketch of one of the landmark an event came with the voices of the downtrodden and discriminated de-centralise the boundaries of the typical style of graphic narratives with the local flavour.