Trauma Narratives and Herstory

Andermahr, Sonya; Pellicer‐Ortín, Silvia

doi:10.1057/9781137268358_1

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“…According to Becker [4], Trauma theory focuses on the aspect of disorder and vulnerability caused by external factors, such as human or natural violence, terror, violation. Likewise, Trauma theory maintains that literature has the powerful potential to express pain and can be used for healing and to harness survivorship and that giving testimony can aid empowerment [2].…”

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Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s Left to Tell

Ayo-Afolayan,

Omobowale

2024

IJLA

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The Rwanda genocide has spawned a great deal of new literary works that draw inspiration from its experience. Specifically, over the last three decades, violence and trauma are vital contributing thematic focuses in Rwandan post genocide literary works. This study was therefore designed to examine the representations of the experiences of the victims of the genocide in order to establish how violence induces trauma in the characters. Postcolonial theory and trauma were adopted as the framework basically to examine the challenges of violence perpetuated by the state against her citizens, as well as interrogate the traumatic state of the characters, while interpretive design was used for critical analysis of the text. Immaculée Ilibagiza’s Left to Tell inscribes different traumatic situations such as bereavement, grief, psychological dislocation, and physical threat to life, as influenced by interpersonal and collective violence to describe her experiences and that of other victims as they journey in isolation and silence as the perpetrators of the genocide lurk around their protector’s residence. The writer exposes the dangers of socio-political violence. This prose narrative helps to unburden the writer’s pains while helping others to have a grasp of the challenges Rwandans faced during the genocide. This study establishes the dangers of bad governance, the harsh realities of war and the intertwined relationship between violence and trauma.

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Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s Left to Tell

Ayo-Afolayan,

Omobowale

2024

IJLA

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“…Caruth (), a prominent trauma theorist, examined the staying power of trauma and argued that “the experience of a trauma repeats itself, exactly and unremittingly, through the unknowing acts of the survivor against his very will” (p. 1). Trauma studies theorists have maintained that literature has the powerful potential to express pain and can be used for healing and to harness survivorship and that giving testimony can aid in empowerment (Andermahr & Pellicer‐Ortin, ).…”

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“…Much scholarship has pointed to the significance of adolescents engaging with trauma stories (Andermahr & Pellicer‐Ortin, ; Balaev, ; Crawford, ; Dutro, ; Whitehead, ). As Balaev argued, protagonists in trauma fiction importantly fill two functions: They “express a unique trauma experience…yet [also] represent a [collective] event” (p. 155).…”

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“The Last Block of Ice”: Trauma Literature in the High School Classroom

Moore¹,

Begoray²

2017

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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This article explores the potential of using trauma literature in the secondary high school classroom, drawing from a case study that explored grade 10 secondary students’ responses to a trauma story. These responses were primarily collected from their digital writing and reveal a number of interesting findings, including the expression of anger and aggression in their writing, discussions of combating depression, and engaging in supportive communication. In addition, some students did not address some expected topics, so there were some interesting silences that emerged in the study.

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“…This is a task that has been carried out on a global scale by women artists from very diverse contexts, creating spaces where the public and the private, the individual and the collective, the personal and the historical can establish an interactive dialogue 40 . For instance, the current generation of Anglophone women writers – including such well-known authors as A.S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Walker – have been very much aware of the need to deconstruct prevailing female stereotypes by creating resisting narratives that call attention to the subtle chauvinist mechanisms that subjugate women on a daily basis, among which the use of language deserves pride of place.…”

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Transitional Women in the Transnational Era: Female Voices through Art

Pellicer‐Ortín

2017

European Review

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This article supports the belief that transnational and glocal mechanisms have drastically affected identity and memory formation processes; thus, very diverse memories regarding complex episodes of migration or trauma are currently regarded as connected through multidirectional and cross-cultural patterns. Drawing on the fields of Trauma and Memory Studies, which consider the therapeutic role of art to represent and abreact troubled individual and collective experiences, the new hybrid identities born from this exchange and relationality have proved to demand new forms of representation. In particular, numerous groups of transitional women have recently fostered transnational engagements of womanhood through their creative works. Thus, some contemporary examples will be provided to show how art can be an empowering tool for contemporary transitional women to acquire a voice as well as a promoter of empathy for the modern glocal subject.

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Trauma Narratives and Herstory

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s <i>Left to Tell</i>

Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s <i>Left to Tell</i>

“The Last Block of Ice”: Trauma Literature in the High School Classroom

Transitional Women in the Transnational Era: Female Voices through Art

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Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s &lt;i&gt;Left to Tell&lt;/i&gt;

Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s &lt;i&gt;Left to Tell&lt;/i&gt;

“The Last Block of Ice”: Trauma Literature in the High School Classroom

Transitional Women in the Transnational Era: Female Voices through Art

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Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s <i>Left to Tell</i>

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