Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Forms of Life/Writing
Victim Auto/biography, Community and the ‘Subject’ of Human Rights
1. Bama’s Karukku
Dalit Autobiography as Testimonio
2. Trauma, Testimony, and Human Rights
Women’s Atrocity Narratives from Postcolonial India
3. Postcolonial Affects
Victim Life Narratives and Human Rights in Contemporary India
4. Writing Survival
Narratives from the Anti-Sikh Pogrom, India 1984
5. The Poetics of Postcolonial Atrocity
Dalit Life Writing, Testimonio, and Human Rights
6. Writing Disability and Rights in Naseema
Genomics, Belonging and (Collective) Lives
7. Genetics and Auto/Biography
8. Genomes, or the Book of Life Itself
9. Autobiogenography
Genomes and Life Writing
10. Genetic Prosopography and Caste
Natureculture in Contemporary India
11. The Double (H)Elixir of Life
Genetic Citizenship and Belonging in the Twenty-first Century
12. The Biogenographic Imagination
DNA, History and the Romance of Species Cosmopolitanism
13. Neurogothic Life/Writing
Locked-in Humans and the Self
Graphic Life/Writing
14. Towards a Postcolonial Critical Literacy
Bhimayana and the Indian graphic novel
15. South of the Graphics
Gandhi, Mandela, and Telling Lives
16. Postcolonial Graphic Lifewriting
Finding My Way and the Subaltern Public Sphere
17. The Indian Graphic Novel and Dalit Trauma
A Gardener in the Wasteland
18. Radical Graphics
Martin Luther King, Jr., B. R. Ambedkar, and Comics Auto/Biography
19. Narrating Alzheimer’s Disease
Graphic Medicine and Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s
20. Communicable Diseases
Graphic Medicine and the Extreme