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).

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dc.contributor.authorMeliani Souad
dc.contributor.authorMerdjok Massiva
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-27T09:49:35Z
dc.date.available2026-04-27T09:49:35Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-07
dc.description56p. ; (+CD-Rom)
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.identifier.citationLiterature and interdisciplinary approaches
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/29962
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversité Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
dc.subjectTrauma
dc.subjectwitnessing
dc.subjecttestimony
dc.subjectnarrativefragmentation
dc.subjectprivateandcollective trauma
dc.subjecttheunspeakable
dc.subjectfracturedselves
dc.subjecthauntedpasts
dc.titleFractured 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).
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