Fantastic Beasts and How to Sketch Them
The Fabulous Bestiary of Sukumar Ray
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11677491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Poushali Bhadury (University of Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-38 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-9527 • E-ISSN: 2573-9476 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02759527.2013.11932917 |
| OpenAlex | W2774689693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper analyzes the iconic black-and-white illustrations of the imaginary beasts in Sukumar Ray's Abol Tabol (Rhymes without Reason, 1923). Far from being consigned to a secondary place, his illustrations significantly change, subvert, and enhance the representational idioms of the nonsense verse. Ray, a British colonial subject, exemplifies Bhabha's notion of an empowered hybridity, unsettling problematic binarism with respect to identity formation. Ray's own explorations of hybridity were often characterized through his imaginary animals that resist classification as a single discernible species. These complex and ambiguous representations of hybridity embrace both the positive and negative connotations of amalgamated social and identity formations
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Epistemology · Hybridity · Identity (music · Literature · Nonsense · Psychoanalysis · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · The Imaginary · White (mutation · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |