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Representation of Trauma in Post-9/11 Fiction: Revisiting Reminiscences in Mohsen Hamid’s <i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-09-01)
The current paper aims at presenting a close reading of the protagonist's reminiscences in Mohsen Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in terms of an eclectic approach toward representation of trauma. Freud and Breuer's theory of psychological trauma, Judith Herman's concept of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Jeffery Alexander's notion of cultural trauma are employed as the conceptual framework of this analysis. Psychological trauma refers to the unbearable, untreatable, and unspeakable psychological wounds remaining on the subject's unconsciousness. PTSD concentrates on troublesomeness in regular physical activities including rapid distraction, insomnia, and shifting in and out through past memories, triggered by trauma. Cultural trauma traces the changes at the level of collective identity of a group due to a formerly experienced horrendous event. The Adventures of Changez, the novel's narrator, dating back to around the 9/11 attack are represented in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The paper conducted a survey through theories of trauma depicting memory as a venue where the subject's psychical status could be fully scrutinized. The results of the study demonstrated that a traumatic event such as that of the 9/11 has a long-term devastating impact on Changez's subjectivity as well as a collective negative consequence for Pakistan's new generation of intellectual immigrants....
Love and Redemption of Modern Man: Deleuzian and Sadraian “Becoming in Love”
(University of Kurdistan, 2024-04-01)
Modern Man, engaging the predicament of “identity" and “self", seeks “love" as a redeeming power to reach affirmation of life and reconciliation. To discuss the issue, the concept of “becoming" as an innate motion and ...
Writing Back to “Culture Talk”: Reinvention of Muslim Identity in The Road from Damascus
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-05-01)
A couple of decades before 9/11, after the collapse of USSR, Islam started to be culturally represented as the major “Other" in the West. 9/11 attacks accelerated the movement with the “culture talk" project positioning ...
“Suddenly Afraid”: Challenged Identities and Disrupted Meaning in Lydia Davis’s Short Fiction
(University of Kurdistan, 2024-04-01)
Implementing Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, the present study attempts to demonstrate that the short fiction of Lydia Davis, contemporary American writer, is, first and foremost, about the fragility of identity and ...
Symbolic Consumption and Media in Bret Easton Ellis’ Less than Zero
(University of Kurdistan, 2021-06-01)
The present paper seeks to argue that consumption and media wield an unparalleled influence over contemporary American society, in a way that these drives constitute the primary means through which identity is constituted. ...