Healing Trauma and Reasserting Identity through Remembrance in Joanne Fedler’s The Dreamcloth
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of memory in generating, transmitting and coming to terms with trauma, and the importance of exploring history, and talking about and sharing traumatic events in the process of healing in Joan Fedler’s The Dreamcloth (2005). In the novel, Maya’s memorie...
Main Author: | Abdullah Md Abu Shahid |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2017-07-01
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Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2017-0005 |
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