Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

Gunne, Sorcha; Thompson, Zoë Brigley

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“…The research showed data on rape cases in American literature from 1790-1990. Moreover, the literature research on rape also strengthened the researches conducted by Gunne andBrigley (2012), Horeck (2004), Mardorossian (2010) who stated that ethnic minorities in various countries were the targets of crime because they were a minority. This is one of the main causes of crime.…”

Section: The Oppression Against Ethnic Minorities and The Truth In Literaturementioning

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The Traces of Oppression and Trauma to Ethnic Minorities in Indonesia Who Experienced Rape on the 12 May 1998 Tragedy: A Review of Literature

Ahmadi

2021

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This study explores oppression and trauma to ethnic Chinese minority women in Indonesia who experienced rape on the 12 May 1998 tragedy through literary data. The research method used was qualitative-narrative. The data source used was a novel titled Mei Merah (MM). The data analysis technique was carried out through stages that identified literary texts related to women's oppression from ethnic minorities; clarification of literary texts related to the oppression of women from ethnic minorities; data exposure; and data validation. The results show that ethnic Chinese women in Indonesia who experienced rape undergo trauma, impacting their psychological conditions. This was shown through Humaira, the novel’s character, who experienced a phase of trauma, a phase of madness, and a phase of suicide due to rape. It happened because of a profound traumatic experience. Moreover, ethnic minority women who are raped often go abroad to remove traces because they feel ashamed and traumatized by being raped.

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Section: The Oppression Against Ethnic Minorities and The Truth In Literaturementioning

confidence: 69%

The Traces of Oppression and Trauma to Ethnic Minorities in Indonesia Who Experienced Rape on the 12 May 1998 Tragedy: A Review of Literature

Ahmadi

2021

J Ethn Cult Stud

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“…In other words, trauma is an injury to the psyche that language often fails to adequately represent or express. Concerned as it is with the complexities of representing experiences that defy conventional modes of knowledge and expression, Caruth's approach has been widely used to delineate the recurrent themes of recollected memories of home and the pain of exile that pervade many diasporic feminist narratives (Brown, 2013;Gunne & Thompson, 2012;Moglen, 2001;Woodiwiss, Smith, & Lockwood, 2017) Yet, despite this conceptual awareness of the importance of language in trauma narratives, very little has been done in relation to the study of the linguistic patterns of traumatized characters' speech. As a result, this article explores the linguistic configurations in feminist trauma narratives with a particular focus on the trauma of exile in Arab-British women literature.…”

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Traumatized Voices in Contemporary Arab-British Women Fiction: A Critical Stylistics Approach

Amara¹,

Omar²

2018

IJEL

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Despite the interest often shown by feminist-informed models of literary trauma in the linguistic properties of traumatized characters’ language, very little has been done in relation to the study of the linguistic mechanisms/strategies speakers adopt in narrating traumatic events. This article explores the linguistic and discursive mechanisms in feminist trauma narratives, with a particular focus on the trauma of exile in the diasporic writings of Arab-British women novelists. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, critical stylistics is adopted to describe the hidden discursive mechanisms in the speech of trauma victims, and how these mechanisms affect both the way such unsettling experiences are narrated, and the extent to which the traumatic dimension of these stories is properly conveyed to readers and recipients. Trauma theorists (Caruth 1995, Rogers 2006) have often emphasized the ‘unspeakable’ nature of traumatic experiences – the way in which they exceed the boundaries of language and expression. Accordingly, our attention should not be directed to what these texts explicitly say. Rather, we should be alert to their silences, gaps, and breaks. In other words, we should be more concerned with how language operates, because it is the cracks and crevices in victims’ speech that the full impact of trauma is most likely to be discernible. In the case of Arab-British women writers, traumatic memories of home, the anxiety of exile, and the constant search for identity are all negotiated through language. By adopting such linguistic strategies as repetition and negation, the traumatized characters in the selected texts both point to their in-between subject position, and assert their alternative subjectivity as resistant to clear-cut compartmentalization.

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Intergenerational Trauma in the Context of the 1947 India–Pakistan Partition

Kaur¹,

Jaggi

2023

Psychol Stud

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The Partition of India evokes tragic images of violence, separation, displacement, loss, and suffering. It was the largest mass migration recorded in human history. With one single decision, millions of people became strangers in the lands of their own ancestors and pushed out to new, unfamiliar territory that they would have to spend the rest of their lives in. However, this was not the end. With this displacement came a life, if only temporary, where mass slaughter became a frightening reality. Amidst this chaotic violence, people had no choice but to watch their lives take a turn they never expected it would and to survive with whatever lay ahead, for as long as they could. The present research was conducted to explore the phenomena of intergenerational trauma in the context of the Partition. Items from the Danieli Inventory for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma were administered to children and grandchildren of Partition survivors currently living in India. An independent samples t -test was used to assess the significance of the difference between the relevant groups, using SPSS version 27.0.1. The results indicated that both generations scored in the medium range, which was a notable level of intergenerational trauma. It is interesting to note that though intergenerational trauma was numerically higher in grandchildren of Partition survivors, this difference was not significant ( p = .49). The paper discusses these results and the implications of the study.

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Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

Cited by 11 publications

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The Traces of Oppression and Trauma to Ethnic Minorities in Indonesia Who Experienced Rape on the 12 May 1998 Tragedy: A Review of Literature

The Traces of Oppression and Trauma to Ethnic Minorities in Indonesia Who Experienced Rape on the 12 May 1998 Tragedy: A Review of Literature

Traumatized Voices in Contemporary Arab-British Women Fiction: A Critical Stylistics Approach

Intergenerational Trauma in the Context of the 1947 India–Pakistan Partition

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