Remembering Traumatic Experiences in Alicia Partnoy’s The Little School
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The study in Alicia Partnoy’sThe Little Schooltries to focus on war and it’s
aftereffects on the Argentinean people. She tells the stories of the people that she met
and saw through her tiny hole in her blindfold while she was in the clandestine
detention center ironically named the Little School. This novel has been read on the
basis of trauma theory. The novelThe Little Schoolby Partnoy, depicts some of the
accounts of the innocent people that were imprisoned and tortured during the dirty
war period in Argentinean history. The study finds views and ideas of traumatic
experience in the novel covering the ideas of freedom, human rights, to fight against
the military oppression, to acquire freedom and search for humanity. In writing this
novel Partnoy has brought out the military brutality and inhuman act in the
concentration camp. Trauma is the memory of past and it’s aftereffects which
connect withhuman psychology.The Little Schoolis a story of resistance which
ultimately leads those characters towards psychological pain. Through the critical
analysis of Partnoy’s narration of war experience, this research aims to explore the
psyche of the peopleat the time of the war.