Memory and Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Ahlam Mostaghanemi’s Memory in the Flesh (1993).
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2017-11
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
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This dissertation is concerned with studying the theme of memoryandtrauma in Virginia
Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925)and AhlamMostaghanemi’sMemory in the Flesh(1993). To
support our research, we have relied on Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory:Trauma:
Exploration in Memory (1995) and Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and
History (1996). We have shown how both novelists have portrayedtheir charactersin a
struggle with their past through memories and different conditions that lead to their
present situations. We have also discussed the way they raise the issue ofmemory and
trauma as major themes in both novels. Finally, we have studiedthe modernist and postmodernisttechniques;
mainly flashback and stream of consciousness, to reveal to which
extent the traumatic memories have affected the characters of both works and have
occupied a large part in their lives.We have found that both authors havefocused on the
relationship between the events and its traumatic impact on the charactersin the context of
trauma theory.
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Langue, Cultures des Pays Anglophones et Media.