Domestic Violence and Trauma in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple(1983)and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003)
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi –Ouzou
Abstract
The present dissertation aims at analyzing the issue of domestic violence and trauma in the Black family in both ChimamandaAdichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus( 2003) and Alice Walker’s the Color Purple(1983) . Both novels portray the lives of Black Females in two different patriarchal communities , the Nigerian and the African American one . We intend to show the physical and sexual abuse that Black women endured from Black males in rural Georgia during the 1920s and post colonial Nigeria during the 1980s .To reach our aim, we have compared the two works relying on Robert L.Hampton ‘s theory of domestic violence , in the book of Interpersonal Violence in the African- American Community.Inaddition to Cathy Caruth ‘s theory of Trauma in her famous books Trauma Exploration in Memory and Unclaimed Experience.We have first examined domestic abuse among Black women and children and the impact of Catholic religion on their lives .Then we have demonstrated trauma as a result of gender and violence in a male dominated society . Our study focus on the issues developed by the two novelists and how they affect them .Then , we have studied the psychological trauma of the oppressed women, who describe their traumatic experience that results to silence of the characters. Which led to women solidarity and rebellion,and liberation from male domination. Throughout our analyses of ChimamandaAdichie ‘s and Alice Walker’ s works , we have come to show the affinities and differences between Purple Hibiscus and The Color Purple .
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54p. ; 30cm.(+CD-Rom)
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Violence, traumatic experience, Black family, male domination, women liberation
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Literature et Approaches Interdisiplinaires