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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:SWISS POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE? READING MARTIN DEAN'S _MEINE\nV
 ÄTER_ (2003) THROUGH TRAUMA\, MUTISM\, AND THIRD SPACE\n\n [Priscilla La
 yne]\nMartin Dean’s novel _Meine Väter_ (“My Fathers\,” 2003)\nfo
 llows Robert\, a Swiss man of Indo-Trinidadian origin\, whose\ndaughter’
 s birth triggers an existential crisis over his uncertain\nidentity. Raise
 d by his Swiss mother and Indo-Trinidadian stepfather\,\nRobert seeks answ
 ers from his biological father\, Ray. Yet when he\nfinally finds Ray in Lo
 ndon\, living in a nursing home and mute\nfollowing a racist attack\, Robe
 rt’s search becomes an exploration of\nabsence rather than revelation. R
 obert and his father’s subsequent\njourney to Trinidad unfolds as a ques
 t for truth that remains\nunresolved\, fragmented across conflicting accou
 nts from relatives\,\nfriends\, and cultural artefacts. I argue that Dean
 ’s novel employs\npsychoanalytic and postcolonial frameworks\, in partic
 ularly trauma\,\nhybridity\, dislocation\, and Homi Bhabha’s “third sp
 ace\,” to\nstage the impossibility of recovery and self-coherence. Ray
 ’s\nmuteness functions as both the bodily trace of colonial violence and
 \nan aesthetic “void\,” positioning _Meine Väter_ as a compelling\n
 example of Swiss postcolonial literature.\n\nPart of The Diefenbaker Lect
 ures\n[/germanic-slavic-studies/diefenbaker-lectures]\, a series of talks 
 by\nleading scholars in German studies.\n\n_Priscilla Layne is Professor o
 f German and Director of the Center for\nEuropean Studies at the Universit
 y of North Carolina at Chapel Hill._\n\n-------------------------\n\n_If y
 ou wish to attend\, please register at Eventbrite\n[https://www.eventbrite
 .ca/e/the-diefenbaker-lecture-series-priscilla-layne-tickets-1983384515477
 ?aff=oddtdtcreator]\n- there's a reception after the lecture\, and we want
  to make sure\neveryone gets something to eat and drink!_
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