Abstract
Within the intersection of decolonial studies and comic studies, this paper examines how decolonial visual styles have been employed in two comics narratives, ‘Someday’ by Samidha Gunjal and ‘Ever After’ by Priyanka Kumar. The specific formal styles have been used to locate the traumatised reality and monotonous life due to the gendering practices prevalent in India. The comics cultivate the everyday stories of the Indian middle-class women, both inside and outside of their domicile. In the light of ‘pornotroping’ and ‘coloniality of gender’, they show how gendered practices relegate the feminine self to the level of a ‘disciplined body’, making them invisible and mute. This paper will ascertain how these narratives exemplify decolonised counter comics narratives on personal sufferings. These narratives are then inflicted upon and against the dominant gender discourse based on heteronormative performativity in India. They help churn out the possibilities of feminine liberation from the shackles of interminable psychological and physical violence created within a gendered reality.
