Trauma and Black Self-Discovery in Toni Morrison's Home
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2018-06
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This dissertation presents the traumatic dimensions and black self-discovery through the exploration
of many themes such as manhood, white medical experimentations, and trauma war in Toni
Morrison’s novel Home. The novel reveals numerous realistic facts about a neglected historical
period and describes how the African Americans were suffering during the 1950s .Morrison
portrays the story as a kind of trauma and sorrow in which the protagonist ‘Frank’ is trying to
reconnect his experiences in order to be healed. This study is an attempt to analyze the novel and to
cover the main events that happened during the 1950s era in the United States and especially during
the Korean War. However the work should prove how Morrison seem to universalize the
characters’ experiences, how Morrison develops the theme of manhood in the novel, and to what
extent the process of healing and recovery is possible at the end of the novel .Besides, It aims to
present Morrison's vision toward this period in which she declared that African Americans were still
discriminated and segregated. It also deals with the psychological issues of the victims in the novel
by going through a deep analysis to cover the Psycho-traumatic dimensions. Describing and
presenting all the aspects in the book, the study requires a socio-historical background about the
United States during the 1950s. In addition to that, this work explores the meaning of trauma in
order to give a comprehensible analysis about the individual and the collective traumatic
experiences. The ultimate goal of the study is to expose the author's purpose behind writing such a
novel, to highlight the efficiency of Trauma Theory as an analytical instrument to analyze the
characters psyche and moreover, to transfer the findings and results of the research for a better
appreciation of the novel.
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Keywords: African Americans, trauma, 1950s, racism, home, Korean War, Healing and Recovery.