Humanising History through Graphic Narratives: Exploring Stories of Home and Displacement from the North-East of India

Literature from the North-East has responded to national, global and local issues, including questions on immigration ethnic violence. They have resisted colonial framework of representation invoked a sense “cultural particularity” (Sarma, 2013). This literature adopted multilingual register respond 1) patriarchal 2) ethnonationalist discourses that forced overbearing presence in everyday lives people their stories. These writings evoke an ethno-critical approach “engages otherness difference such way as provoke interrogation challenge” our familiar realms experience is “consistent with recognition legitimation heterogeneity” Select stories First Hand (Volume II, 2018) – The Lonely Courtyard (2018), My Name Jahanara A Market Story (2019) by Kumdo Yumnam provide heterogeneity characteristic works emerging North-East, thereby resisting homogeneity often indicative term ‘North-East’. analysis will explore how selected texts negotiate textuality visuality specific manner present archive life humanises history.