Ethical representation of holocaust trauma in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
| dc.contributor.author | Acharya, Prabhat | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-23T09:37:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-23T09:37:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The research entitled “Ethical Representation of Holocaust Trauma in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief". Zusak here deals with the issue of ethical representation of trauma within characters from the perspective of La Capra’s notion of trauma and Margalit’s notion of ethics. Further, he brings the concept of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida’s sort of ethics into application. It aims to justify the main characters of the novel as the ethical beings. Markus Zusak here valorizes anti-liberal humanist characters who are guided by the infinite sense of responsibility towards the needy ‘Others’. The author is aware of the self-centeredness, hierarchical relations, and universalizing tendency of liberal humanism and critiques them through the portrayal of ethical or anti-liberal humanist characters like Liesel, Hans, Rudy, Max and others and tries to show that even in the heart of tragedy morality is still possible that means good can withstand evil. Characters risk their life to follow what they believe to be morally right. Liesel care and love Max as her own brother. She prays for his survival. Ethical representation is most to reduce the intensity of trauma. Liesel and Max reduce their trauma through literacy and cope up with it but Mitchel cannot reduce his trauma which results in suicide. Similarly, Frau Holtzapfel gets reduced her trauma with Liesel’s help. The real solution of the violence is adaptation of Levinasian- Derridian version of ethics to accept ‘Others’ and respect the particularity instead of searching for universality as Kantian ethics. Further, Markus Zusak also deals with the circulatory nature of trauma and almost impossibility of trauma resolution without revisiting it. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/handle/20.500.14540/19334 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ethical rendition | en_US |
| dc.subject | Holocaust trauma | en_US |
| dc.title | Ethical representation of holocaust trauma in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.institute.title | Central Department of English | en_US |