Intergenerational Trauma in Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars and Alyan’s Salt Houses
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https://doi.org/10.55737/qjssh.838123433Keywords:
Alyan, Arab, Intergenerational Trauma, Joukhadar, TraumaAbstract
The study of intergenerational or multigenerational trauma is the locus of 21st-century fiction and non-fiction; however, few research studies dare to explore the contextual reality of this research scope. This present research analyzes the issue of intergenerational trauma in Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars and Hala Alyan's Salt Houses. With Michelle Balaev’s theorization of pluralistic trauma, this study focuses on the experiences of Arabs’ intergenerational trauma in selected novels and also on the contexts related to the trauma experiences. This article uses the textual analysis approach to support its conceptual framework that illustrates the context of war and displacement in different Arab states. The analysis of the two novels illustrates how trauma affects not only victims' lives but also their descendants' lives.
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