A New Beginning of Trauma Theory in Literature
Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History and Kali Tal’s Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma sparked a great attention to literature lovers. Her suggestion on Trauma Theory enlightens a new era in poststructral approach of analyzing literary texts. Slowly b...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6322/1/FH02-FBK-18-14961.pdf http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6322/ |
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| Summary: | Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History and Kali Tal’s Worlds
of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma sparked a great attention to literature lovers.
Her suggestion on Trauma Theory enlightens a new era in poststructral approach
of analyzing literary texts. Slowly but gradually, several models were introduced
which inherent neurobiological features of trauma that refuse representation and
cause dissociation were significant to arguments that sought to emphasize the
extent of profound suffering from an external source, whether that source is an
individual perpetrator or collective social practice. It was quickly accompanied by
alternative models and methodologies that revised this foundational claim to suggest
determinate value exists in traumatic experience. However, the researcher would
like to explore and reintroduce Trauma Theory in more contemporary approach so
that it will be acceptable and practical in all genres of literature. Similarly, this study
is in line with the critics such as Leys and Cvetkovich who establish a psychological
framework apart from the classic model thus produce different conclusions regarding
trauma’s influence upon language, perception, and society. The researcher believes
that Trauma Theory should be viewed in a larger conceptual framework rather
than the social psychology theories in addition to neurobiological theories; that is
in the view of Critical Thinking. This stance might therefore consider dubious the
assertion of trauma’s intrinsic dissociation. The discussion focuses more on the
roles of Critical Thinking in supporting Trauma Theory in several selected poems. In
conclusion, the findings might prove that Critical Thinking and Trauma Theory can be
blended together in developing learners’ intellectuality and maturity in analyzing and
appreciating literary texts. |
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