Essays about: "Transgenerational trauma"

Found 2 essays containing the words Transgenerational trauma.

1. 1. There is no there there anymore : The representation of collective and cultural trauma in Tommy Orange's There There

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Melinda Gustavson; [2021]
   Keywords : Collective trauma; Cultural trauma; Colonial trauma; Transgenerational trauma; Survivance; There there; Healing;

   Abstract : In this essay, the aim is to analyse the representation of collective and cultural trauma within the narrative of Tommy Orange's novel There There, as well as how the novel is redressing the experience of traumatisation, leading a way towards healing. To do this, the essay will focus on six of the novel's characters as well as the title, prologue and interlude. READ MORE

3. 2. Three Times Trauma : A literary analysis of NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and its potential in the EFL classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Maria Edlund; [2020]
   Keywords : NoViolet Bulawayo; We Need New Names; EFL classroom; upper secondary school; African Diaspora; postcolonial literature; trauma;

   Abstract : This thesis argues that events in the postcolonial novel We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo can be viewed as traumatic based on three different aspects; witnessed trauma, transgenerational trauma and cultural trauma. In addition, the thesis provides pedagogical implications and analysis of the novel’s usefulness in the Swedish EFL classroom. READ MORE