Diasporic Dispersals and Convergences: The Creative Trajectory of a PhD Project

My critical-creative PhD project on diasporic creative practice began as a textual analysis dissertation with a video-recorded reception studies component, but it has become more than a hybrid research discourse. Its creative and fluid trajectories are not unlike the dispersals and convergences of d...

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Main Author: Sukhmani Khorana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bath Spa University 2009-11-01
Series:Transnational Literature
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Online Access:http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/2328/7984/1/bitstream
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Summary:My critical-creative PhD project on diasporic creative practice began as a textual analysis dissertation with a video-recorded reception studies component, but it has become more than a hybrid research discourse. Its creative and fluid trajectories are not unlike the dispersals and convergences of diasporic identity and cultural production itself. These trajectories are mapped here with an exegetical section, followed by an edited selection of web-log entries and poetic fragments written during the various production stages of the creative component.
ISSN:1836-4845