Narrativization of Trauma in Sebastain Barry's The Secret Scripture
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Faculty of Art in English
Abstract
The research paper studies the issue of the narrativization of trauma in
Sebastain Barry’s novel The Secret Scripture in order to argue how narrating one's
traumatic experiences can become the source of healing. It further examines on the
importance of literary writing like novel in one's act of working through the painful
experiences, especially trauma. In doing so, this research burrows the theoretical
concepts of ''workingthrough of trauma'' by DominikLaCapra along with the ideas
from Cathy Caruth.The paper concludes with the finding that the traumatic
experiences can be lessened by sharing it