Crip-Queer Ethics of Care in Amruta Patil’s Kari and Sybil Lamb’s I’ve Got a Time Bomb

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ID12115407
AuthorsAnhiti Patnaik (0000-0002-8858-1051, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani), Jaya Sarkar (0000-0001-6851-6976, Department of Humanities and Sciences, MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume32
Issue2
Pages146-157
Publication date2024-01-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0803-8740 • E-ISSN: 1502-394X
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08038740.2023.2300345
OpenAlexW4390543365
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This essay examines how crip-queer ethics of care is represented in two case studies from contemporary feminist graphic fiction. A comparative textual and theoretical analysis is conducted to examine diverse queer communities represented in Amruta Patil's graphic novel Kari and Sybil Lamb's illustrated novel I've Got a Time Bomb. Both novels use crip-queer aesthetics to deconstruct gender binaries and pave the way for a more radical, fluid, and inclusive culture. Using Robert McRuer, Carrie Sandahl, and Jack Halberstam's theories of gender and disability, the essay examines how Patil and Lamb create protagonists that combat the very category of the "normative" in white heterosexist patriarchy. It reveals how a crip-queer ethics of care can create the possibility for more emancipated futures for the transnational queer and trans communities

Aesthetics · Art · Feminist ethics · Heteronormativity · Normative · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising

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