Displacement, Identity and Belonging An Arts-Based, Auto/Biographica
Displacement, Identity and Belonging is a book about difference. It deals with ethnicity, migration, place, marginalisation, memory and constructions of the self. The arts-based and auto/biographical performance of the many voices in the text compliment a
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TEACHING RACE AND ETHNICITY Volume 2 Series Editor Patricia Leavy USA International Editorial Board Theodorea Regina Berry, Mercer University, USA Owen Crankshaw, University of Cape Town, South Africa Payi Linda Ford, Charles Darwin University, Australia Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland, USA Virinder Kalra, University of Manchester, UK Marvin Lynn, Indiana University, USA Nuria Rosich, Barcelona University (Emerita), Spain Beverley Anne Yamamoto, Osaka University, Japan Scope The Teaching Race and Ethnicity series publishes monographs, anthologies and reference books that deal centrally with race and/or ethnicity. The books are intended to be used in undergraduate and graduate classes across the disciplines. The series aims to promote social justice with an emphasis on multicultural, indigenous, intersectionality and critical race perspectives. Please email queries to the series editor at [email protected]
Displacement, Identity and Belonging An Arts-Based, Auto/Biographical Portrayal of Ethnicity and Experience
Alexandra J. Cutcher
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DISPLACEMENT, IDENTITY AND BELONGING
Displacement, Identity and Belonging offers an excellent example of the use of novel approaches to social research that are designed to raise important questions and provide unique insights into complex issues in various fields of the humanities. The inquiry and representational strategies employed here, as the subtitle suggests, arise from within what is known as arts-based research. This is a form of inquiry that honors the premises, principles, and procedures employed in the creation of works of art. And indeed the text itself resembles a talented work of artistry in both form and substance. Here, the particular form of arts-based research and scholarship is that of auto/biographical portraiture. So the text evidences various discursive modalities — some gloriously poetic; others decidedly prosaic — in the presentation and discussion of findings. The more aesthetic, storied forms of representation enable the reader to relive empathically the life experiences of the characters portrayed in the book. This arts-based dimension serves as ballast for the more lofty, scholarly discourse that, in turn, allows the text to escape what one might call the t
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