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Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2239-6427
AccessType
Campus-Only Access for Five (5) Years
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Comparative Literature
Year Degree Awarded
2020
Month Degree Awarded
September
First Advisor
Moira Inghilleri
Second Advisor
Don Levine
Third Advisor
Anne Ciecko
Subject Categories
Comparative Literature
Abstract
This dissertation examines the depiction of the migrant body in contemporary works of migrant art made by migrant artists across a spectrum of forms (paintings, sculptures, audio installation, fiction, etc.) Each artwork, seen as a ‘return-of-the-gaze’ that interrogates how the migrant is perceived by the societal, institutional, and migrant-self gaze, produces moments of contact between spectators and the migrant narrative, thus facilitating, for the former, a nuanced understanding of the latter.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/4gvd-qm22
Recommended Citation
Akella, Shastri, "COMMUNITY OF PATHOS: RESISTANCE THROUGH REPRESENTATION IN MIGRANT ART" (2020). Doctoral Dissertations. 1982.
https://doi.org/10.7275/4gvd-qm22
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1982