Abstract
The present study aims to scrutinize the concept of trauma in Laleh khadivi’s work entitled, The Walking. The objective of the study is to examine how Khadivi’s work can be read through theories of trauma. The Freudian notion of trauma focuses on the remaining psychological wounds on subjects’ identity while Alexander’s concept, cultural trauma, concentrates on the cultural outcome of a horrendous event at the collective level. Traumas are not solely private psychological experiences and are restricted to one solitude individual as they can expose themselves as collective experiences. Literary works are valuable properties picturing the results and outcomes of trauma both at its individual and collective level. In the current paper, concepts related to traumas will be defined to examine the characters in Khadivi’s novel. The novel provides a set of chronological events that happened to a minority group during the Iranian revolution. The author chooses her characters of Iranians of Kurdish immigrants. The Walking, reminds us of events happening during 1976 in Iran, after The Islamic Revolution. The article will delineate that characters are psychologically traumatized after the revolution in Iran as well as experiencing cultural trauma during the twentieth century.
Highlights
1 As the dominant mode in modern literary studies, interdisciplinary studies pave the way for sociological and psychological literature studies
The present study aims to scrutinize the concept of trauma in Laleh khadivi’s work entitled, The Walking
Since the novel concerns the life of a Kurd refugee after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, other researchers can go through the text considering other sociological theories as to their conceptual framework
Summary
1 As the dominant mode in modern literary studies, interdisciplinary studies pave the way for sociological and psychological literature studies. Theories of culture have drawn significant attention in the last decade. Campanian of Freud as a psychoanalyst and Jeffery C. Alexander as an anthropologist can draw the attention of thinkers’ toward multi-dimensional theories regarding socio-psychological and socio-political events and movements. Literary works can be the resources reflecting the results and outcomes of a crisis in societies. Alexander made a model to interpret social phenomena, working on cultural trauma to revolve the interest of the carrier groups, competing for narratives on the identification of victim and delinquent, utopian and dystopian proposals for trauma resolution, the performative power of the constructed event and the distribution of organizational resources. Alexander made a model to interpret social phenomena, working on cultural trauma to revolve the interest of the carrier groups, competing for narratives on the identification of victim and delinquent, utopian and dystopian proposals for trauma resolution, the performative power of the constructed event and the distribution of organizational resources. (Alexander, 2004, p. 4)
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