Trauma in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

Abstract

This research examines how a woman with a different cast of mind comes in a conflicting relation with society. InAdichie’sHalf of a Yellow Suna woman is traumatized and victimized as a result of Biafran war and domestic abuse. The trauma impacts on middleclass Igbo women’s gender performance. This thesis cross- examines women’s experience within the domestic sphere, ultimately reflecting a larger national trauma that Biafran and later Nigeria undergo as a result of colonial occupation. The Nigerian patriarchal society restricts Olanna‘s inner longing for freedom. So she goes to Kano to meet her relatives and lives with Odenigbo. This thesis concludes an exploration of the culturally specific practice of morality and storytelling must necessary to initiatethe healing process for the individual as well as the national trauma. Drawing the notion of Cathy Caruth’s Jenny Edkin’sTrauma and the Memory of Politics Trauma:Explorations in Memory, it explores illustrations where memory gives psychological trauma. Thus this research asserts the critical position of those characters psychological condition because of so many traumatic conditions. It is the survey to analyze their way of coping in all those situations.