Titre : | Memory Narrative and Cultural Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) | Type de document : | texte manuscrit | Auteurs : | Hayat Allout, Auteur ; Fattoum Mouissa, Directeur de thèse | Editeur : | Laghouat : University Amar Telidji - Department of English | Année de publication : | 2022 | Importance : | 50 p | Format : | 30 cm | Accompagnement : | 1 disque optique numérique (CD-ROM) | Langues : | Anglais | Catégories : | THESES :20 Langue et litterature anglaise
| Mots-clés : | Trauma Toni Morrison slavery psychologists beloved culturetrauma memory | Résumé : | The African American slave trade experience is one of the important phases in American
history, which is a result of several sacrifices and fighting, starting from the abolition of
slavery and the Civil Rights Movement to achieve selfhood and freedom. The journey
toward freedom was characterized by harsh and difficult events that marked their haunting
past and traumatized present, and African Americans lived with physical, psychological,
and emotional impacts. Toni Morrison's Pulitzer-winning novel Beloved depicts the
traumatic experience of African Americans in America, where she focuses on the historical,
emotional and psychological impacts of slavery, which certain psychologists, namely
Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer had examines and studied in their works. This
dissertation sheds light on the experience of African Americans’ journey to freedom and
self-determination. Adding to the analysis of cultural trauma and memory narrative in
Morrison’s Beloved,the work questions the role of memory in the history of black slaves
and its association with the process of self-realization for individuals and community on
whole. Thus, the main objective of this research is to highlight the relationship between
cultural trauma and memory narrative and to illustrate the psychological destructive
impacts as it points to the process of collective healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved | note de thèses : | Master Degree in civilization and Literature |
Memory Narrative and Cultural Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) [texte manuscrit] / Hayat Allout, Auteur ; Fattoum Mouissa, Directeur de thèse . - Laghouat : University Amar Telidji - Department of English, 2022 . - 50 p ; 30 cm + 1 disque optique numérique (CD-ROM). Langues : Anglais Catégories : | THESES :20 Langue et litterature anglaise
| Mots-clés : | Trauma Toni Morrison slavery psychologists beloved culturetrauma memory | Résumé : | The African American slave trade experience is one of the important phases in American
history, which is a result of several sacrifices and fighting, starting from the abolition of
slavery and the Civil Rights Movement to achieve selfhood and freedom. The journey
toward freedom was characterized by harsh and difficult events that marked their haunting
past and traumatized present, and African Americans lived with physical, psychological,
and emotional impacts. Toni Morrison's Pulitzer-winning novel Beloved depicts the
traumatic experience of African Americans in America, where she focuses on the historical,
emotional and psychological impacts of slavery, which certain psychologists, namely
Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer had examines and studied in their works. This
dissertation sheds light on the experience of African Americans’ journey to freedom and
self-determination. Adding to the analysis of cultural trauma and memory narrative in
Morrison’s Beloved,the work questions the role of memory in the history of black slaves
and its association with the process of self-realization for individuals and community on
whole. Thus, the main objective of this research is to highlight the relationship between
cultural trauma and memory narrative and to illustrate the psychological destructive
impacts as it points to the process of collective healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved | note de thèses : | Master Degree in civilization and Literature |
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