The Lost Identity of the Trafficked Child Soldier in Young Adult Literature

Abstract

Abstract-This study examines the impact of child soldier trafficking on the identity of the trafficked child soldier, explores the factors that impact on the identity development of the trafficked hero as it appeared in the fiction and sees how the novelist used Young Adult Literature to deal with some young adults' issues as child trafficking. For the purpose of achieving these objectives, young adult novel Iweala's Beast of No Nation (2005) is selected. The framework of this study is based on a Bronfenbrenner's ecological system theory (1994).For analysing the literary text, thematic approach of Braun and Clarke (2006) is used. The study comes to the following findings: the war traffickers always attempt to erase the identities of the trafficked child soldiers and replace it with the identities of the slave soldiers, following diverse sorts of violence as physical and psychological torture is an away to enslave the trafficked children, adopting some changes can rebirth the identity of the trafficked child which assists him or her to escape from those traffickers, the children are easy targets to be recruited as soldiers or rebels , finally, young adult literature is a convenient literature to teach moral lesson.

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“…This study used Braun and Clarke (2006) thematic approach to analyse the data for the following reasons: it is an appropriate method to analyze any study which needs interpretation, it is a flexible method that helps the researcher analyse the data, it is also a suitable method in case the data size is large, and it was used by many scholars (McDonald, 2011). Davey ( 2014) Alobeytha et al (2018) found that it was suitable for analysing data in qualitative studies. This approach is implemented by pursuing six stages of coding in order to find a meaningful organized pattern (familiarizing yourself with your data, generating initial codes, searching for themes, reviewing themes, defining and naming themes, and producing the report) (Figure 1).…”