‘To draw light, you need shadow’: Using graphic art to counter gender based violence in Drawing the Line
Type de ressource
Auteur/contributeur
- Zare, Bonnie (Auteur)
Titre
‘To draw light, you need shadow’: Using graphic art to counter gender based violence in Drawing the Line
Résumé
Women in India cope with an ongoing sense of precarity owing to the frequency of street harassment and sexual violence; this impacts their freedom to travel and sense of autonomous agency. The December 2012 Nirbhaya case, the rape and fatal injury of a Delhi medical student, returned the subject of rape to public discourse leading to mass protests and, eventually, some stronger anti-rape laws; however, #metoo allegations surface weekly, and artists and activists are demanding that the trivialization of rape and verbal abuse stop and active steps be taken to dismantle the cultural scaffolding undergirding twomen's violation. In 2014 a collaboration by Zubaan Press (New Delhi) and the Goethe Institute (Germany) brought a group of Indian graphic artists together to create stories about women’s ground realities and the microaggressions they experience. The resulting publication, Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back, contains fourteen vignettes which reveal the constraints women experience and also illuminate women’s capacity for resilience and boldness. This essay analyzes the forms of resistance imagined in these narratives, how particular stories illuminate slow violence, and what may be lost if we know little about the perpetrators who commit these acts against women.
Publication
South Asian Popular Culture
Volume
18
Numéro
2
Pages
139-148
Date
2020-05-03
ISSN
1474-6689
Titre abrégé
‘To draw light, you need shadow’
Consulté le
29/05/2023 17:30
Catalogue de bibl.
Taylor and Francis+NEJM
Extra
Publisher: Routledge
_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2020.1775342
Notes
Plus un essai, plutôt qu’un article scientifique, qui démontre la résistance des femmes en Inde contre la violence (ou plutôt, la “slow violence”) dont elles sont victimes.
J’ai l’impression que le contexte est assez éloigné de ce qu’on recherche, mais pourrait être une source intéressante, tout dépendant l’usage qu’on en fait!
Référence
Zare, B. (2020). ‘To draw light, you need shadow’: Using graphic art to counter gender based violence in Drawing the Line. South Asian Popular Culture, 18(2), 139–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2020.1775342
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