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VPHC73H - Home, Away, and In Between: Artists, Art and Identity Winter 2022

A research guide to support research that you will complete as part of VPHC73: Home, Away, and In Between - Artists, Art, and Identity

Welcome!

The research in this course focuses on the connections between visual, literary and film arts with respect to experiences of:

  • war
  • exile
  • displacement
  • diaspora
  • refugeeism
  • placemaking

The research that you will do will also focus on the current world characterized by movement, how do ideas of home and belonging, trauma and nostalgia for other spaces/places manifest themselves in the arts. The nomadic, transnational nature of the 20th and 21st century is considered in its influences and shaping of and by contemporary visual artistic practices in the Tamil diaspora. This research guide is meant to help you with the process.

Please explore the links below to explore how to find various resources: