The trauma and fragmentation narrative in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife and Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Abstract Trauma theory, which emerged in the early 1990s, unveiled the deep-rooted violence characterising modern civilisation. As an essential subset of trauma studies, trauma literature acts as a testament to victims’ experiences. A narrative technique pivotal to this literature is the fragmented...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yali Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-09-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02046-6