The Art of Postcolonial Resistance and Multispecies Storytelling in Malik Sajad’s Graphic Novel Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir

Abstract

This article looks at how Kashmiri author Malik Sajad’s graphic novel Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir (Fourth Estate, 2015), employs the narrative form of the kuntslerroman, cartographic interventions, and visual-written strategies of “speculative fabulation” in order to de-familiarize the hegemonic story of Kashmir circulating in political and media circles. In the process, the novel not only reclaims and rewrites Kashmiri history as lived experiences at intersections of the written and visual texts, sentient and non-sentient life forms, affective, and material cultures, but also underscores the urgency of everyday praxes of social and ecological justice in order to dislodge the conflict violence from within the valley.

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