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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-e5fc76b882564be7873086fb4fe520362023-11-23T20:13:30ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872022-02-011112910.3390/h11010029Refugees and Representation: An Impossible NecessityMieke Bal0Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), 1012 CX Amsterdam, The NetherlandsStaging 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/1/29refugee-domexpulsiontraumadrawingintermedialityunrepresentability |
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| title | Refugees and Representation: An Impossible Necessity |
| title_full | Refugees and Representation: An Impossible Necessity |
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| title_short | Refugees and Representation: An Impossible Necessity |
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| topic | refugee-dom expulsion trauma drawing intermediality unrepresentability |
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