Post- war Trauma and Healing in American Literature: A Comparative Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter House-Five and Toni Morison’s Beloved”
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Pathway, Beloved, Post-war, Trauma, American Literature, Slaughter House FiveAbstract
The under study investigates a comparative analysis of two different novels of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter house-Five (1969) and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” (1987) investigating how two fictions depicted trauma and pathways to healing in the consequences of war. Throughout the close reading of the novels and essential writing and insight sources, the analysis recognizes the similarity and disparity within works of trauma representation techniques, component of recuperating and narrative ways. This research attempts to underscore the intricate tapestry trauma theory as its main conceptual theatrical framework to analyze the multifaceted manifestation of trauma and opportunities for recovery. However, key result indicates that both texts use cracked chronology and other ingenious approaches to represent trauma’s effect. Morrison eventually represents a more optimistic exploration of healing throughout communal acceptance. This investigation enhances and reinterpretation of the notion that how seminal American novels have investigated the resonations of mass aggression.
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