Abstract: »The critical and rhetorical practise of postmodernism has been credited with bringing about a shift in the ontological and epistemological modes of enquiry. It has shaken the foundations of the general belief system and has exposed the biased politics underlying the previously established truths, especially history. As has been incessantly argued by critics both prior to and especially since the intellectual movement of postmodernism, history is just a "narrativized account" that has been formulated to substantiate the dominance of the elite. It has served as a hegemonic discourse to validate its trivializing narrative of the marginalized. The ongoing ethical interventions by postcolonialist and feminist, who leveraged by postmodernism, has led to the discovery of some of the missing chips from the larger picture of nation's history. Interestingly, even graphic narratives, a sub genre of comics, one of the most demeaned genre by the academia, has been used to find and unmute the voice of the marginalized. Although the combination of graphic narrative and history leaves a bad taste on the culturally refined tongue of the elitist academia, it has been recurrently experimented with. Maus, Persepolis, The Best We Could Do, Palestine testifies to not only the avant-garde experiments but also the success story behind it. The paper looks at Grass, a memoir by Keum Suk gendry-kim as a historical narrative and how with the use of graphic narrative the subjectivity of comfort women, previously erased in favour of patriarchal-imperialist interest, surfaces. In addition, the paper explores how graphic narrative, being a postmodern genre, helps the author challenge the previous ontological and epistemological assumptions on the nature of truth and the validity of the truth claims made in historical discources.« (Source: Aureole)

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