بررسی تروما در داستان یک موضوع موقتی از جومپا لاهیری

جومپا لاهیری به عنوان یکی از نویسندگان ادبیات مهاجر، نقش بسزایی در معرفی این گونه آثار داشته است و کارهای او از جنبه های مختلف مورد بررسی قرار گرفته اند. چیزی که مورد توجه قرار گرفته است، مهارت او در بیان نحوه زندگی و مشکلات مهاجران در کشورهای جدید می باشد. در عین حال، افراد کمی به اتفاقاتی که در آثار او روی می دهند و تاثیرات آنها بر زندگی شخصیت های مختلف توجه کرده اند. این مقاله قصد دارد به یکی از این گونه اتفاق ها در داستان یک موضوع موقتی بپردازد و آن را از با استفاده از عقاید کتی کاروت در نظریه تروما مورد بررسی قرار دهد. شاید مهم ترین بخش از نظرات کاروت این باشد که تروما یک حادثه است و وقتی شخصی دچار آن می شود، در زمان رخدادن آن، آگاهی کاملی نسبت به آن نداشته و در نتیجه، تروما برای وی در آینده تکرار می گردد. با در نظر گرفتن تولد فرزند مرده در این داستان به عنوان یک رویداد ترومایی، این مقاله به بررسی مساله تروما با استفاده از نظریه کاروت می پردازد و نتیجه گیری می کند از آنجایی که چنین حوادثی به طور ناگهانی روی می دهند، افراد درگیر آنها آگاهی کافی نداشته و مجددا آن را تجربه خواهند کرد، که این امر می تواند منجر به نوعی درمان ترومایی از طریق تکرار آن نیز شود.

a study of trauma in jhumpa lahiri’s a temporary matter

introduction: traditionally defined as the wounds to the body of a person inan event, the word trauma has come to be related to the mental problems resultingfrom being a participant in events that happen so suddenly that the personwould not have enough time to unders tand it. cathy caruth, following the ideasof sigmund freud, attributes the shock experienced by people in a traumaticevent to the fact that the people do not have access to the reality of trauma,which necessitates its recurrence which would provide an opportunity for thesame person to experience it again.this paper intends to have a view on the short s tory “a temporary matter”by lahiri from the viewpoint of trauma s tudies. it will clarify how the ideas expressedby caruth and similar critics can be detected so well in this s tory – ideassuch as the unconscious and incomplete meeting of the trauma by the people goingthrough it and that to overcome the following problems and res tless feelings,it would necessary for having the trauma re-experienced by the same person.background s tudies: as a famous indian-american writer, jhumpa lahiri haswritten award-winning s tories presenting lively images of the immigrants makingtheir lives in the new hos t country or going through the troubles faced bythe second generation who would encounter problems of identity as whether todefine themselves as indian or american.rejecting the importance of pure diasporic explorations, some critics viewed herworks as attempts to see how accidents or events can have everlas ting effects onthem. such writers point to the importance of events such as the train accident in having both literal effects and symbolic significance. these critics would pointto the fact that lahiri’s s tories are not jus t simply about the experiences of theimmigrants, but are about the results of some traumatic events befalling them.methodology and argument: the present paper s tudies “a temporary matter”in the collection the interpreter of maladies from the points of view oftrauma s tudies, with an emphasis on ideas provided by cathy caruth who emphasizesthat the main reason that a person cannot forget the traumatic events issimply because they could not unders tand what happened during it. she believesthat as the result of the incomprehensibility of the trauma, the people involvedin such situations, will have to experience a second time so that they might comeclean with what they were influenced by.conclusion:applying the caruthian ideas to analyze the s tory “a temporarymatter”, this paper takes the birth of a s tillborn child as a traumatic event as ithas had an all-effective impact on not only the couple’s behavior but also ontheir relationship. to caruth’s idea about traumatic repetition, the couple experiencesthe event again for the woman to be able to mourn for the dead child.additionally, it points to the fact that the reason for the traumatic experiencelies in the fact that the people have not been in conscious relation to the momentof the event.