Browsing by Author "Meliani Souad"

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    Fractured selves and haunted pasts: Reading Trauma through Caruth and Felman in Susan Sontag’s Debriefing (1978), Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind (1985), and Annie Proulx’s Postcards (1992).
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2025-07-07) Meliani Souad; Merdjok Massiva
    This dissertationisentitled FracturedSelvesandHauntedPasts:ReadingTraumathrough CaruthandFelmaninDebriefing(1978),ALieoftheMind(1985),andPostcards(1992). It exploreshowtraumaisportrayedinthenarrativesmentionedinthetitle,throughShoshana Felman’sandCathyCaruth’stheoreticalframeworks.Itexamineshowtraumaaffectsboth individuals andthepeoplearoundthem,showinghowthepainofapersoncanspreadthrough his orherfamily,community,andsociety,andhowitdisturbstime,memory,andtheabilityto speak. Allthreeworksshowtraumaassomethingthatisdifficulttodescribe,usuallysilenced. The analysisdemonstratesthatcharactersarefrequentlymutedbytheboundariesoflanguage and socialexpectations,andstaylockedbetweensurvivalanddestruction. A LieoftheMind examinesfamilialbreakdown, Postcards examinesgenerationalguiltandsilence,and Debriefing examinesnarrativedisintegration.Eachchapterfocusesonadistinctwaythattraumamanifests itself. Thisstudyconcludesthatliteratureaimstopresenttraumaratherthantoresolveit,to testifytotheunspeakableandtohighlightthemoralobligationoflistening.