The Blemished Body: Deformity, Disability and Marginality in Charles Bruns's Black Hole

Abstract
This paper aspires to exhibit graphic narrative as an intermedial medium teeming with any other fictional or non-fictional medium to address issues like deformity, disability and the marginalization of blemished bodies more effectively. It also aims to shed light on the fact that the time has come to stop scrutinizing the text merely from didactic parlance that eventually gets defined by trauma.
Presenter Biography

First Author: Ms Madhurima Nargis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Pandaveswar College, Kazi Nazrul University, India. She is also pursuing her PhD in the Department of English, Pondicherry University, India. Her PhD thesis is on Graphic Narratives. She has published a few papers and attended many national and international conferences, seminars, workshops and webinars on her own field of interest. Recently, she has presented a paper entitled as “Archiving Hibakusha in Comics: A Close Reading of Atomic Bomb Survivors in Keiji Nakazawa’s Ore Wa Mita” in Comics 2021 Conference, organized by the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Her research interest focuses on graphic narratives, diaspora, disability studies, postcolonialism, and feminism.

Second Author: Mr Mohaiminul Islam is a research scholar (PhD) in the Department of English, Pondicherry University, India. He is currently working on Disability Studies. He has published a few papers and attended many national and international conferences, seminars, workshops and webinars on his own field of interest. Recently he has published a paper titled “Text as a Cultural Archive: A Close Reading of Madan Vasishta's Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir” from the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Liverpool University Press. His research interest focuses on diaspora, comics and disability studies.