Date of Award
2005
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts Honours
Faculty
Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries
First Supervisor
Max Pam
Second Supervisor
Dr Dennis Wood
Abstract
The visual component of this project consists of a photographic representation of my experience in a Vezo fishing village on the southwest coast of Madagascar. In the exegesis, magical realism provides a theoretical framework to describe both the use of the photographic medium and the content of my images. Away from both the rigid narratives of modernity and its realist perspective and from the sceptical nihilism of extreme postmodemity, magical realism allows for an ambiguous space in which expression and subjectivity are interconnected with empirical reality. Moreover, this concept which acknowledges a plurality of small and, sometimes contradictory, narratives to inter-dependently co-exist is useful to describe the syncretism of the presence of the supernatural that is embedded in the Vezo everyday life.
Recommended Citation
Stotzer, T. (2005). Photography in Madagascar: Magical realism as an ambiguous space. Edith Cowan University. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/384