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# Project Description Fashioning the Migrant Self: Singapore (1910-40) Ananya Athaiya Summary Final work Ananya is a cultural historian with a special interest in colonial history, contemporary pop culture and how things come to be. She enjoys going down research rabbit holes and combining her love for stories with her love for fashion. Ananya is a cultural historian with a special interest in colonial history, contemporary po... College London College of Fashion Course MA Fashion Cultures and Histories Graduation year 2025 My dissertation looks at photographs of Indian migrants from the Lee Brothers Studio archive. The Lee Brothers Studio was a prominent studio in early twentieth century Singapore which employed Victorian photographic practices to produce portraits of upper-class residents. Through a postcolonial lens, this dissertation explores the dress practices of the migrants and how they reflected key discursive formations operating within the colonial paradigm. It draws from Homi Bhabha’s framework of postcolonial enunciation and from scholars of fashion studies discussing dress as a situated bodily practice. I employ the visual analysis methodology provided by Gillian Rose alongside discourse and archival research methods to bring forth discussions around identity-formation in migrants and shed light on discourses around photographic practices in the early twentieth century. By doing so, my research contributes to postcolonial scholarship and identity formation within fashion studies in South and Southeast Asia. Final work Share this project My dissertation looks at photographs of Indian migrants from the Lee Brothers Studio archive. The Lee Brothers Studio was a prominent studio in early twentieth century Singapore which employed Victorian photographic practices to produce portraits of upper-class residents... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Archives & Collections Body Histories History Migration Photography Postcolonialism VisualResearch
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