The Study of Cultural Trauma in Morrison’s A Mercy

Abstract

A Mercy depicts the effect of cultural identity of African American as well as Native American through the traumatic incidents of slavery. It focuses on the fragmented traumatic memory of the characters for their cultural identity. Being the traumatic characters their behaviors and activity seen in the form of enigmatic behavior etc, results the cultural trauma acting upon them. Every character either slaves or non slaves are in the quest of their identity in the newly found land, America. Beside this, the novel is the real picture of slave’s traumatic memory and trauma for their lost identity. Thus, this research explores the traumatic voice of the characters for their cultural identity as depicted in A Mercy.