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- Title
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Toni Morrison's Beloved.
- Authors
Nidhin, Johny; Subin, P. S.
- Abstract
Experiencing trauma is an inevitable part of human life, we must go through extremely difficult situation though we like it or not. History is painted in blood. Literature provides an amble medium for venting out certain emotions. Human beings are exposed to worst situation in the course of history and most of the rational race has come out of it without unaltered mental and spiritual sanctity. But not all of them were lucky despite the human ability to adapt and survive some traumatic experience has shaken up the whole composition of physical mental and psychological wellbeing of these people. Post- traumatic stress disorder gives a theoretical framework on how people's conception of the world and themselves and how personal and shared experience are intertwined. In Toni Morrison's Beloved we see the psychological effect of the personal and collective trauma of slavery. Each of the characters though out of slavery are still haunted by the ghosts of their past, their bodies are emancipated their minds still carries the burden of memory. In this paper I would analyse post-traumatic stress disorder as experienced by the characters.
- Subjects
BELOVED (Book : Morrison); MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; POST-traumatic stress disorder; EMOTIONS; MENTAL health
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 4, p221
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Literary Criticism