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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/priscilla-layne
LOCATION:Balsillie School of International Affairs 67 Erb Street West Water
 loo ON Canada
SUMMARY:Priscilla Layne
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Martin Dean’s novel _Meine Väter_ (“My Fathers\,” 2003
 )\nfollows Robert\, a Swiss man of Indo-Trinidadian origin\, whose\ndaught
 er’s birth triggers an existential crisis over his uncertain\nidentity. 
 Raised by his Swiss mother and Indo-Trinidadian stepfather\,\nRobert seeks
  answers from his biological father\, Ray. Yet when he\nfinally finds Ray 
 in London\, living in a nursing home and mute\nfollowing a racist attack\,
  Robert’s search becomes an exploration of\nabsence rather than revelati
 on. Robert and his father’s subsequent\njourney to Trinidad unfolds as a
  quest for truth that remains\nunresolved\, fragmented across conflicting 
 accounts from relatives\,\nfriends\, and cultural artefacts. I argue that 
 Dean’s novel employs\npsychoanalytic and postcolonial frameworks\, in pa
 rticularly trauma\,\nhybridity\, dislocation\, and Homi Bhabha’s “thir
 d space\,” to\nstage the impossibility of recovery and self-coherence. R
 ay’s\nmuteness functions as both the bodily trace of colonial violence a
 nd\nan aesthetic “void\,” positioning _Meine Väter_ as a compelling
 \nexample of Swiss postcolonial literature.
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