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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 …
Diasporic Dispersals And Convergences The Creative Trajectories Of A Phd Project, Sukhmani Khorana
Diasporic Dispersals And Convergences The Creative Trajectories Of A Phd Project, Sukhmani Khorana
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
My critical-creative PhD project is entitled Mehta's Film Trilogy: Theorising Transnational Production and Reception; Practising Diasporic Creativity. It began as a textual analysis dissertation with a video-recorded reception studies component in the University of Adelaide's Discipline of Media in February 2007. Now nearing completion, it has become more than a hybrid research project. Its creative and fluid trajectories are not unlike the dispersals and convergences of diasporic identity and cultural production itself. It has acquired the form of its content; it has come to manifest what it articulates. This reflective compilation aims to map the creative trajectory, while acknowledging the …