Narrativizing Trauma in Roddy Doyle's The Dead Republic

Abstract

This study explores narrativization of trauma in Roddy Doyle’s The Dead Republic. The writer has presented the protagonist as a narrator, who narrativizes the traumatic events he has experienced. Henry narrativizes the traumatic events to lessen the impacts of the trauma. On the one hand, the traumatic experiences are repeated through hallucination and nightmares, and they, on the other hand, are being recounted by Henry. Basically, the narrativization of trauma, despite fractured by hallucinations and nightmares, helps him cope with his trauma.