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@article{191097,
        author = {Puja Prakashbhai Patel and Dr. Vipul K. Bhavsar},
        title = {From Oral Tradition to Visual Narrative: Retelling and Revision of the Mahabharata in Amruta Patil’s Graphic Novels},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {12},
        number = {no},
        pages = {797-800},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=191097},
        abstract = {This paper examine the Mahabharata has long both been a plural narrative tradition, with centuries of oral performance history and regional versions as well as textual accretion, and existed as a plural text in numerous versions. The contemporary adaptations thus engage into a continuous process of transmission as opposed to reproduction. In this paper, the author will review how the Parva duology of Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean (2012) and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers (2016) by Amruta Patil adapts oral epic tradition into the form of the graphic novel and at the same time update narrative and cultural authority interrogatives. Based on the orality theory, adaptation studies, comics’ Narratology, and paratext theory, the paper claims that Patil redefines epic authority as decentralized and not centralized. By means of sutradhar like narrators (Ganga and Ashwatthama), paratextual framing that underscores the notion of retelling, and a visual verbal narrative technique that would insistently ask the reader to be a part of the tradition that Patil inherits, she is not so much an originator but a mediator in an inherited tradition. The paper has shown that the graphic novel is not a sub servant or illustrative genre but rather an acceptable contemporary epic performance an ability that can achieve both the plurality of the Mahabharata and express new ethical issues of our times including ecology, gender and post violence.},
        keywords = {Amruta Patil, Mahabharata, Graphic novel, Oral Tradition, Retelling, Adaptation, Sutradhar, Paratext},
        month = {},
        }