Refugees and Representation: An Impossible Necessity
Staging a (fictional) encounter between two artworks, a work on paper by Indian artist Nalini Malani and the novel <i>No Friend but the Mountains</i> by Iranian-Kuridsh writer Behrouz Boochani, the text—an essay, rather than a traditional scholarly article—peruses the paradoxes of repres...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-02-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/1/29 |
| Summary: | Staging a (fictional) encounter between two artworks, a work on paper by Indian artist Nalini Malani and the novel <i>No Friend but the Mountains</i> by Iranian-Kuridsh writer Behrouz Boochani, the text—an essay, rather than a traditional scholarly article—peruses the paradoxes of representing what cannot but must be (re-)presented. Issues such as the required modesty in the face of the suffering of others, the irrepresentability of trauma and intermediality are examined through the ongoing analysis of the two artworks. |
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| ISSN: | 2076-0787 |