{"product_id":"elephant-in-room-women-draw-their-world-picture-book-nap585","title":"The Elephant in The Room (Women Draw Their World Picture Book)","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eNAP585\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/book-publisher\/zubaan%20publications\/\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Zubaan Publications\"\u003eZubaan Publications\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e9789385932243\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e9.5 inch X 8.5 inch\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eWeight\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-weight\"\u003e530 gm\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eBack of the Book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e These stroies and styles in this anthology are as varied as the spices that make up a curry . A curry made of tear and hair, menstrual blood and sectets , bitter arguments and sweet memories , dogs,cats and babies , moons and stars. Some are tasty , some are medicinal, some are magical. All are vivid.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Feminist artists have always been bold, original and outspoken, and The Elephant in the Room honors this legacy and offers up a delightfully thought-provoking, myth-busting visual feast. Across its pages, sixteen comic artists from India and Germany explore how women see the world and themselves, taking apart and repurposing ideas of identity, power and love; sex, family, and bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Confronting the elephant with humor and passion, these graphic artists insistently draw the awkward and the difficult. As feminist art has always done, this book reminds us that the personal is political. Exploring taboos, exploding myths, raising awkward questions and posing visionary answers, each story shines a light on the elephant in the room — what does it mean to be a woman?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Spring is a collective of women artists founded in Hamburg, Germany in 2004. The collective brings out an anthology series which contains an unusual combination of comics, illustration and free drawing. Spring is independent and non-commercial.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Why do so many of us still fret about our secret hair? Our never-to-be-born babies? Our grandmother's opinions? The size of our bums? WHY are so many of us defined by our shapes and our body parts, rather than the worlds we build through our knowledge, experience and talent? WHY are so many of us crushed by social pressure until we ourselves no longer believe in ourselves?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The answer is: elephants. Not real elephants, of course, but the giant, unexamined and unmentionable issues that deform—and sometimes augment—the dreams of so many girls and women. There have always been highly acclaimed women illustrators amongst us. Beatrix Potter comes to mind. Claire Bretecher in France. Japan's comic industry is maintained by armies of women artists. Yet it was really only when Marjane Satrapi published her graphic memoir Persepolis in 2000, that a giant portal was punched open for many other women artists to flood through.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Publishers began to consider the possibility that women represented a market opportunity. And then—hallelujah! The Internet! The World Wide Web combined with easy-to-use graphic software and fingertip-friendly electronic screens really brought the revolution home to girls and young women. Alison Bechdel in the US and Amruta Patil in India have built their success on the foundation of their highly refined artistic sensibilities. But it's the unschooled techniques of thousands of amateur cartoonists exploring the digiverse on their tablets and iPhones which truly revolutionized the visual landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e In Drawing the Line, Zubaan's previous collection of graphic narratives, that freedom from artistic and stylistic constraint came through in stories drawn and written by young urban Indian women. In this fresh collection the focus has shifted to... elephants. Indian as well as European. The book came into being when a group of German and Indian artist-authors travelled to Nrityagram, in Karnataka, India to spend time thinking, writing, drawing and sharing across the cultural spectrum to capture the experience of being women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The resulting stories and styles are as varied as the spices that make up a curry. A curry made of tears and hair, menstrual blood and secrets, bitter arguments and sweet memories, dogs, cats and babies, moons and stars. Some are tasty, some are medicinal, and some are magical. All are vivid. Go on then. Go see the elephants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e In 2016, a group of German cartoonists met with eight Indian colleagues in Nrityagram, Bangalore, to create this book. It all started two years earlier when the Goethe-Institut New Delhi and Zubaan organized a workshop for Indian women cartoonists led by Larissa Bertonasco, Ludmilla Bartscht and Priya Kuriyan. This resulted in a book, drawing the Line, published by Zubaan in India. Larissa was so enthusiastic about the intercultural collaboration; she developed a joint volume of SPRING with all of the participants collaborating on an egalitarian basis in the spirit of direct democracy as the group had always done. The result is the book you now hold in your hands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e We lived together at a place for writers' residencies around 30 kilometers from Bangalore. The building is on the site of Nrityagram, a school for classical Indian dance. The huge property felt like paradise: different buildings scattered around the complex like in a village with gardens in between where fruit and vegetables were grown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Our time together consisted of intense interaction, with discussions among the entire group or in smaller groups. The two resident dogs, Guru and Swami, liked to visit us, and took their naps next to us in the shade, where it was a pleasant 30°C. Each woman drew her story and presented it to the group, resulting in lively discussions. Every morning, we worked on our drawings together, and a small library for comics provided considerable inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Our first working title was Role Models—which in addition to its literal meaning in English also convey the meaning of \"setting a pattern.\" We wanted to make conscious reference to our roles as women in our respective societies as the idea was to juxtapose Indian and German women's experiences. Our final title, The Elephant in the Room, is an expression that describes an important and obvious fact that no one wants to talk about as it is considered uncomfortable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e While women in Germany seem to live relatively self-determined lives with many possibilities, in a non-homogeneous country like India things are a little more complex. India is a nation of paradoxes and women-in India today reflects that paradox. Rapid econorr-changes have had a profound impact on womens' roles in Indian society. Social relations change, love marriages gain acceptance, women pursue careers in business, politics or cultural affairs—the women's movement is generally strong. But this does not apply everywhere or for everyone in India. Sexual violence, domestic violence, rape and female feticide continue to be huge problems. Deeply entrenched inequities of caste and class add to the complexities of conversations around gender and choices for women in India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e What has changed over the past few years though, is that conversations around gender and violence against women —which are often lead by young women of diverse cultural backgrounds and faiths—are no longer easily brushed under the carpet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The differences of our living environment filled whole evenings of lively discussions, but it showed also how much we have in common that matters to us and connects us. The question of our identity as female artists and the relationship between freedom and responsibility was more relevant in our discussions than ever before. On the last evening before we headed home, we lay on the stone floor of the amphitheatre in which the heat of the day could still be felt, and warmed our backs. We gazed up at the moonlit sky, and watched the clouds as their shapes shifted. 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