Open AccessChildhood Trauma in Maya Angelou’s Autobiographical Fiction – Abuse and Displacement
Author(s) -
Nina Maria Roşcan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
university of bucharest review. literary and cultural studies series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-8658
pISSN - 2734-5963
DOI - 10.31178/ubr.9.1.4
Subject(s) - maya , oppression , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , displacement (psychology) , white (mutation) , psychoanalysis , literature , gender studies , history , art , sociology , philosophy , politics , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , political science , gene , law
The article discusses how trauma is represented in Maya Angelou’s autobiographical fiction, one of the most important themes in all her seven autobiographical novels and an African American feminist marginalized experience that speaks about the intensity and effects of women’s oppression. It explores how the novelist locates traumatic affects in the protagonist, and suggests that Frantz Fanon’s model of racial trauma in Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth remains essential for the interpretation of postcolonial texts. My purpose is to explore the different juxtapositions that the story offers between individual and collective experiences of