| Titre : | Trauma In Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night |
| Auteurs : | Alaoui Mohamed, Auteur ; P/LLA Dr. Djamila MEHDAOUI, Directeur de thèse |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | SAIDA [ALGERIE] : 1- University of Saida - Dr. Moulay Tahar / Faculty of Letters, Languages and Arts Department of English Language and Literature, 2025-2026 |
| Format : | 80p / 27cm |
| Accompagnement : | +CD-ROM |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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Table of Contents
Declaration of Originality............................................................................................................I Dedication.................................................................................................................................. II Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................III General Introduction...................................................................................................................1 General Introduction...................................................................................................................2 Chapter One :The Historical Context of Trauma........................................................................6 Chapter One:The Historical Context of Trauma.........................................................................6 I. 1 Introduction:.......................................................................................................................6 I.2 Definition and Nature of Trauma ..........................................................................................6 I. 2.1 Definition of Trauma.........................................................................................................6 I.2.2 Nature of Trauma ...............................................................................................................8 I.3 Historical Development of Trauma ..................................................................................... 11 I.4 Trauma in West-Indian Literature .......................................................................................13 I. 5 Types of Trauma.................................................................................................................14 I. 5.1 Acute trauma ...................................................................................................................14 I.6 Main Causes of Trauma ......................................................................................................18 I. 6.1. Physical or Sexual Violence ...........................................................................................18 I.6.2 War and Armed Conflict...................................................................................................18 I. 6.3 Natural Disasters and Serious Accidents.........................................................................18 I. 6.4 Emotional and Psychological Abuse ...............................................................................19 I. 6.5 Loss and Grief.................................................................................................................19 I. 7 Effects and Symptoms of Trauma ......................................................................................19 I.8 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) .............................................................................24 VI I.10 Conclusion: .......................................................................................................................27 Chapter Two :Between Early and Contemporary Trauma Theories.........................................28 II.Chapter two: Between Early and Centemporary Trauma Theories ......................................28 I.Introduction ............................................................................................................................28 II. 1 Trauma in Literary Studies ...............................................................................................29 II.2 Trauma Theories ................................................................................................................34 II. 2.1 Early Trauma Theories (Freud’s Theory of Hysteria)....................................................35 II. 2.2 Contemporary Trauma Theories (Cathy Caruth)...........................................................37 II.3-Typology of Trauma In Literary Texts...............................................................................40 II.3.1-Psychological Trauma.....................................................................................................40 II.3.2 Cultural Trauma ..............................................................................................................43 II.4 Trauma Recovery Theory ..................................................................................................48 II. 5 Conclusion: .......................................................................................................................51 Chapter Three : Trauma in Cereus Blooms at Night.................................................................52 Chapter Three: Trauma in Cereus Blooms at Night..................................................................53 III.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................53 III.2 Trauma in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night ........................................................53 III.3 Trauma and Memory ........................................................................................................54 III.4 The Fragmented Self of Mala: A Freudian Reading.........................................................55 III.4.1. Repression and the Reappearance of the Repressed.....................................................57 III.4.2. Melancholia and the Failure of Mourning....................................................................58 III.5 Unclaimed Experience and Narrative Gaps: A Caruthian Reading..................................60 III.5.1. The Crisis of Truth and Witnessing in the Late Age.....................................................62 III.5.2. Silence as Communication of Trauma..........................................................................64 III.6 The Reconstruction of the Self: The Road to Healing......................................................67 III.6.1. Safe Spaces and Empathic Witnessing .........................................................................68 III.6.2. Integrating the Shattered Past.......................................................................................72 III.7 Conclusion........................................................................................................................74 VII General Conclusion ..................................................................................................................75 |
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