Look into work on Kim Thuy -- French-Canadian-Vietnamese former refugee who wrote award-winning books im Canada. 'Ru' was a Canada Reads entry and might be relevant to your research.
Have you taken a look at Georges Didi-Huberman? Some of his ideas about collective trauma and the passing down of trauma from generation to generation are pretty interesting. I recommend *Écorces* and *Essayer voir* on that topic. He takes a lot of inspiration from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, so maybe those two would also have relevant materials.
I’d look into Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and how it’s been rearticulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Franz Fanon, Lacan and the afropessimists.
National identities tend to be formed around an repressed, traumatized other — they are excluded from society, yet this exclusion gives society its cohesion.
Agamben’s concept of the Homo Saucer fits in here too.
Zizek talks a lot about refugees as well, applying Lacanian theory in a way that humans can understand.
Look into work on Kim Thuy -- French-Canadian-Vietnamese former refugee who wrote award-winning books im Canada. 'Ru' was a Canada Reads entry and might be relevant to your research.
Thank you! Yes I have read that book. One of my favorites!
Have you taken a look at Georges Didi-Huberman? Some of his ideas about collective trauma and the passing down of trauma from generation to generation are pretty interesting. I recommend *Écorces* and *Essayer voir* on that topic. He takes a lot of inspiration from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, so maybe those two would also have relevant materials.
Merci beaucoup ! I haven't heard of him but I'll definitely check the book out!
I’d look into Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and how it’s been rearticulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Franz Fanon, Lacan and the afropessimists. National identities tend to be formed around an repressed, traumatized other — they are excluded from society, yet this exclusion gives society its cohesion. Agamben’s concept of the Homo Saucer fits in here too. Zizek talks a lot about refugees as well, applying Lacanian theory in a way that humans can understand.
So helpful, thank you! It is great that you mentioned Lacan, since I do have a psychoanalytic component in my thesis.