Missing in action
This essay weaves itself around the figure of the hip-hop artist M.I.A. Its driving questions are about the impossible choices and willed identifications of a dirty war and the forms of media, cultural politics and creativity they engender; their inescapable traces and unaccountable hauntings and re...
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| Online Access: | http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no1_2012/perera_missing.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23672 |
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| author | Perera, Suvendrini |
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| description | This essay weaves itself around the figure of the hip-hop artist M.I.A. Its driving questions are about the impossible choices and willed identifications of a dirty war and the forms of media, cultural politics and creativity they engender; their inescapable traces and unaccountable hauntings and returns in diasporic lives. In particular, the essay focuses on M.I.A.’s practice of an embodied poetics that expresses the contradictory affective and political investments, shifting positionalities and conflicting solidarities of diaspora lives enmeshed in war. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-236722017-01-30T12:38:36Z Missing in action Perera, Suvendrini This essay weaves itself around the figure of the hip-hop artist M.I.A. Its driving questions are about the impossible choices and willed identifications of a dirty war and the forms of media, cultural politics and creativity they engender; their inescapable traces and unaccountable hauntings and returns in diasporic lives. In particular, the essay focuses on M.I.A.’s practice of an embodied poetics that expresses the contradictory affective and political investments, shifting positionalities and conflicting solidarities of diaspora lives enmeshed in war. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23672 http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no1_2012/perera_missing.pdf Borderlands fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Perera, Suvendrini Missing in action |
| title | Missing in action |
| title_full | Missing in action |
| title_fullStr | Missing in action |
| title_full_unstemmed | Missing in action |
| title_short | Missing in action |
| title_sort | missing in action |
| url | http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no1_2012/perera_missing.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23672 |