traumatic experience and delayed and unconscious responses in david mitchell’s ghostwritten

Trauma, as it is used in contemporary literary theory, refers to an event or experience that induces inexpressible dread, thereby severing or erasing one’s identity. it disrupts the attachments and relationships that define the self, frequently resulting in a fragmented sense of self and the inability to articulate one’s experience. trauma is typically depicted in literature through the interaction of language, experience, memory, and place, and the geographical location of the traumatic event or recollection can serve as a metaphor for its effects on the individual and larger cultural context. the trauma novel illuminates the various ways in which trauma and memory can be portrayed, as well as how they influence the formation and transformation of the self (balaev 149-166).