On settler colonialism as cruelty: Bryanne Young, ‘”Killing the Indian in the Child”: Death, Cruelty, and Subject-formation in the Canadian Indian Residential School System’, Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 48, 4, 2015, pp. 63-76
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Abstract: Provoked by the religious and state ethos for the Canadian Indian Residential Schools, to kill the Indian in the child, this essay engages Lacanian psychoanalysis and theories of biopolitics to conceptualize processes and practices of subject-formation and self-making within the circuitry of the Canadian Indian Residential School
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