Traumatic Experience of Lydia and Her Family Members in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit

Abstract

Dangor’ novel Bitter Fruit is a novel of traumatic experience experienced by black people especially by Lydia in the novel along with her family members. It is not only personal trauma but also trauma in collective manner. Dangor has tactfully presented the traumatic feeling of the blacks’ experience in the contemporary society in South Africa. The domination and deprivation from natural rights and racial discrimination are the traumatic events for blacks where rape has become a best and easiest way to dictate. No matter whether it is blacks or anybody else rape traumatized every person who becomes victimized of. Traumatized person express their experience in different ways. Black women were being raped due to various reasons like being involved in Blacks movement by their husband or themselves. Just to torture them and fulfil their sexual desire white used to rape blacks and for many more reasons. Rape has become mostly known but not spoken matter in the South Africa