Abstract
Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri, fictionalizes but at the same time addresses water wars and political ideologies in the city of Delhi. By the means of eco-critical approach in the name of Vi-kas (development) Banerjee discuss the acts of slow violence subverted on nature in the name of progress (vikas). Through text/ images the author depicts chaos and challenges for the readers in more direct and obscene ways. The current paper attempts to look at Banerjee’s illustrations and images as new form of language emerged in modern Indian literature with the possibly that illustrations have more effect on performativity. Banerjee’s creative use of images as a new form of storytelling also tries to trace in this paper a literary transition from tradition storytelling to modern day use to graphic and visual representations; also digital media. The narrative structure used by Banerjee traces ‘ways of seeing’ the post- modern Indian literature tracing substantial evolution in style and technique. The present paper will also try to elucidate how drishya (drsya or the visual, from Sanskrit literature) can have far reaching effect on the imagination of reader leaving strong expression on human psyche.
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Barthwal, Akanksha Ms
(2026)
"Performance of Illustrations and Images as Language in Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri,"
SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education: Vol. 2:
Iss.
9, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss9/4
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