Loss and Melancholia: Dionne Brand’s Disquisition on Vietnamese Refugees in the Canadian City
- 주제(키워드) 디온 브랜드 , 『우리 모두가 갈망하는 것』 , 베트남 , 난민 , 캐나다 소설 , Dionne Brand , What We All Long For , Vietnam , refugees , Canadian novels
- 주제(기타) 영어와문학
- 설명문(URI) https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002724705
- 등재 KCI등재후보
- 발행기관 현대영미어문학회
- 발행년도 2021
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000182619
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약
Through the topoi of loss and melancholia, this paper will explore Toronto’s third Poet Laureate, Trinidad-born Dionne Brand’s fourth novel What We All Long For (2005), specifically related to the Vietnamese refugee characters Tuan and Cam. While the refugee experience can be situated more broadly within the processes of displacement, migration, and settlement attendant with immigration, there are additional losses for refugees compounded by their traumatic flight from the homeland and their volatile status in their countries of relocation. For refugees, the loss of their former selves generates a condition of melancholia, since they are barred from sustaining their previous identities as well as from accessing new, replaceable objects because of their racial acculturation and assimilation distinctively as refugees. At the same time, in such context where melancholia is an externally imposed, racially-induced condition, melancholic attachment can be defiant self-preservation, remembrance, and recognition—“another, a parallel story, a set of possible stories” to the official story.
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