Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the oral and aural modes of exploration. It begins with Brandon LaBelle's discussion of what he terms acoustic justice, where he posits acoustics not only as a sonic phenomenon but also as one which performatively organizes sociopolitical positionalities. The book then discusses the phenomenology of archipelagic connections and the politics of creolization. It also demonstrates how creolization, collaboration, and commemoration come together to shed light on the micro-scalar level of changes triggered by colonialism in Pondicherry, how those changes are forgotten, and why they need to be remembered. The book discusses the haptics and intermedial agencies in comics and comics as a space of apex and precepts, self and other. It examines the Amazon Prime Video series Made in Heaven, to provide an aspect of Delhi, as both a visual and a virtual space.