Abstract
In his Nobel acceptance speech, Gabriel Garcia Marquez mentioned, ― “the interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.” Situated in this problem of perpetual representation as ‘other’ and ‘subaltern’ without a voice, this paper studies knowledge-creation through the narratives of image. Despite, living in overtly visual culture, the core of this visual world (which largely informs our sense of culture)– the image – is not subjected to changes of consciousness. Positing visual art as a parallel knowledge-producing system this paper questions whether the image can pave the way to initiate a conversation with those that coloniality and social hierarchy have rendered voiceless. Centralizing Ronaldo Vázquez’s Theory of Listening, a key column of decoloniality studies, this paper formulates an image from the embodied experience of the ‘other’. It will place itself in a triad of Bengali novelist Kamalkumar Majumdar’s novel Antarjali Jatra, its film adaptation by filmmaker Gautam Ghosh, and Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak’s 1992 article Acting Bits/ Identity Talk where she mentions the novel and the film as a case study. Each of these ‘texts’ in different ways relates to the questions of identity through ‘image’. Hence this triad may act as a meta-case study for this paper.
Presenters
Sanskriti ChattopadhyayStudent, Doctoral Researcher in Artistic Research (Film), HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
DECOLONIALITY, THEORY OF LISTENING, IDENTITY, OTHERISATION, PARALLEL KNOWLEDGE-PRODUCTION
