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Vasquez-Parra, Adeline

Maîtresse de conférences en civilisation américaine à l’Université Lumière Lyon 2

adeline.vasquez-parra@univ-lyon2.fr

Pôle(s) : Politisation et Participation

Chantier(s) : Genre, féminismes et politique

Current project

War, Jewish-Migrant Memory, and the Ruins of Empire in Canada : Régine Robin, David Albahari, and Ayelet Tsabari in Context (1980–2020)

My present research project concentrates on innovative approaches to the Atlantic history of migrations. It blends history, literature, migration studies, and Jewish studies to explore representations of migration to Canada in the shadow of imperial collapse and twentieth-century wars. It examines the trajectories, works, and personal archives of authors Régine Robin, David Albahari, and Ayelet Tsabari. All three are shaped by Jewish-migrant memory, and their narratives grapple with the legacies of both the Russian and Ottoman empires, as well as the Holocaust and the post-conflict traumas of the Balkans and the Middle East.
The project takes Danilo Kiš as a formal and ethical model for these authors — his literary anatomy of totalitarianism, antisemitism, and displacement provides a shared grammar through which they articulate the tensions between memory and erasure. Canada therefore emerges not as a land of possibilities but of impossibilities — a space where inner territories of exile, the loss of language, and the wounds or silences of the past continue to resurface. At the same time, their work opens new avenues for approaching history and rethinking contemporary challenges through a reconsideration of our imaginaries of place.

Publications

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Book chapters

Encyclopedia Articles

Selected publications

Interviews

Academic blogs

Grants and awards

2023-2025 : Grant for Early Career Researchers, French Ministry of Higher Education
2017 : Bourse postdoctorale, Conseil International d’Études Canadiennes.
2013 : Fonds pour la recherche, bureau des affaires internationales et de la coopération, Université libre de Bruxelles.
2012 : Concours Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, catégorie : chercheur étranger.
2011 : Prix de la recherche, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Canada.
2011 : Prix de la recherche doctorale, Conseil International d’Études Canadiennes.


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