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Diasporic Art: Writing/Visualising Back And Writing/Visualising Into Being, Sukhmani Khorana
Diasporic Art: Writing/Visualising Back And Writing/Visualising Into Being, Sukhmani Khorana
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The recent critical and popular acclaim won by films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and Deepa Mehta's Water is putting the creative works of diasporic artists in general, and South Asian diasporic artists in particular on the world map. This interest in creativity that is inspired by the homeland, but not necessarily produced in the culture of origin is of pressing significance in an era torn between globalisation and regionalism. Does the diasporic hyphen, through its cultural processes and products, bridge the gap between cosmopolitan and vernacular identities? This paper, which is an introduction to a larger project on diasporic …
The Importance Of Being Incorrect: Burma Road Pieces, From End To Beginning, Yu Ouyang
The Importance Of Being Incorrect: Burma Road Pieces, From End To Beginning, Yu Ouyang
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Yu relates his travel to Kunming, China. After being in Kunming and back in Australia, he suddenly felt a kind of illness that defied description. Everything was normal for him, and too correct. He realized that his Kunming travel showed the importance of being incorrect.