In Search of a New Homeland

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dc.contributor.advisorHadlaw, Jan
dc.contributor.authorKalash, Bashar
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-28T13:13:09Z
dc.date.available2020-08-28T13:13:09Z
dc.date.copyright2020-06
dc.date.issued2020-08-28
dc.date.updated2020-08-28T13:13:09Z
dc.degree.disciplineDesign
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMDes - Master of Design
dc.description.abstractThe origin of my MDes thesis/project is a story I wrote to document my journey from Syria to Canada as a refugee. It motivated the visual and theoretical research that came to inform the thesis that follows and the three multimedia books that constitute its visual component. My thesis/project employs autoethnography and research-for-creation methods to capture and convey the experience of my journey. It marries this exploration of personal experience with theoretical investigation—specifically, Edward Said’s idea of “Orientalism,” Frantz Fanon’s notions of recognition, performance, and “interrogative subjectivity, and Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of hybridity—in order to examine refugee identity. Relying on self-reflection and the findings of my theoretical investigations, my thesis consider the importance of cultural identity in asking the question: “what is the experience of losing one’s homeland?”
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/37810
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectMiddle Eastern studies
dc.subject.keywordsAutoethnography
dc.subject.keywordsResearch-creation
dc.subject.keywordsPhotography
dc.subject.keywordsCalligraphy
dc.subject.keywordsTypography
dc.subject.keywordsPostcolonialism
dc.subject.keywordsCultural studies
dc.titleIn Search of a New Homeland
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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