Please create a list of your research materials and explain why in details on the blog under your FINAL PROJECT (page or category). Submit your blog link here.
-What will you use to craft your final research project (art media, readings, objects, images, etc.)
-Why do you decide to utilize these materials? How can they help you to know/explore your final research inquiry?
Academic Sources:
Butz, David, and Kathryn Besio. “Autoethnography.” Geography Compass 3, no. 5 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., September 2009: 1660–1674.
David Butz and Kathryn Besio discuss autoethnography as personal narrative, which utilizes first-person forms of writing to blur the distinctions in emotion, representation, and performance.
Czako, Zslot. “IDENTITY.” Visual Communication 10, no. 3 (August 2011): 419–432.
Czar asks: “Who am I? Or, more exactly, how is the identity of the self born?”. This question, explored in his visual zine is one I also look to examine through my work.
Duncum, Paul. “Seven Principles for Visual Culture Education.” Art Education 63, no. 1 (January 2010): 6-10.
I find these principles to be a helpful way to organize and frame the themes that I will be exploring, and the ways that they fit into the contexts of power, ideology, and representation.
Flum, Hanoch, and Avi Kaplan. “Identity Formation in Educational Settings: A Contextualized View of Theory and Research in Practice.” Contemporary Educational Psychology 37, no. 3 (July 2012): 240–245.
The process of identity formation is also anchored in a sense of ‘being part of’—a web of relationships, group solidarity, and communal culture”. This idea of communal culture is interesting to explore as the context behind autoethnographic work.
Marechal, Garance. “Autoethnography.” InEncyclopedia of Case Study Research,edited by Albert J. Mills, Gabrielle Durepos and Elden Wiebe, 44-46. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2010.
As Garance Marechal states, autoethnography is a method that can be undertaken to give insight into the perspective of an individual, and although it may not be generalizable, it can be utilized to draw cultural implications in experience.
Saleh, Lena, and Lois Harder. “Boxes Fulla Fun: The Fulla Doll, Identity and Consumption in a Globalizing Arab World.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1496780552/.
I find this concept to be very interesting, especially as it relates to the thematic elements of my work. “Children glean a sense of self-worth and understanding of the world around them partly from the cultural objects with which they interact” (page 65).
Sullivan, G. “Art Practice as Research” in Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts pp. 95-120. New York, SAGE 2010.
Sullivan discusses arts based research, and the ways it can be utilized to engage in a self-reflexive practice. “It can also be argued that the process of making art and interpreting art adds to our understanding as new ideas are presented that help us see in new ways” (page 97).
Author sources:
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.
Cisneros deals with ideas of identity in her book. She also writes in an alternative style, through vignettes, rather than short fiction or poetry.
Kaur, Rupi. Milk and Honey.Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2015.
Kaur, Rupi. The Sun and Her Flowers. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2017.
Kaur’s poetry also deals with ideas of identity. She uses an often quick and punchy style of poetry that I enjoy writing.
King, Thomas. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
King discusses identity in this book, and the way that it has been defined by individuals and by society as a whole in regards to Native Americans/Indigenous people.
Orange, Tommy. There, There. New York: Vintage Books, 2018.
Orange discusses the complexity of identity within the Native American urban population, and all the ways they connect to or turn away from their native identity.
Salesses, Matthew. “High Schools, or How to be Asian American.” Guernica, July 2012. https://www.guernicamag.com/high-schools-or-how-to-be-asian-american/
Salesses, through the use of short story, discusses the complexity of having a marginalized Asian American identity. An example is when he says “…how we all felt guilty we weren’t more Asian than we were…”.
Artists:
Shireen Taweel
Taweel’s work “broaches issues of the construction of cultural heritage, knowledge and identity through language and the constantly shifting public space of the social, political, and religious axiom. Her artistic practice draws from the personal experiences of being Lebanese Australian living between cultures, and how the physical spaces within her community reflect a complex cultural landscape of transformation expressed through hybridity and plurality”.
Beth Lo
Beth Lo is a Chinese American, who is a child of immigrants.Her ceramic and mixed media work involves the themes of childhood, family, and Asian culture and language. She has exhibited internationally. Her work deals with similar themes to my own, especially as she is a child of immigrants, but was born in America.
Helen Zughaib
Zughaib left Lebanon with her family during the Lebanese Civil War. Her work comments on cultural identity, family life, and the plight of refugees and displacement in the Middle East (the Arab Spring), and the Lebanese Civil war. Her work depicts her Arab background, and so in it I recognize, and have understanding towards the themes and subject matter she utilizes.
