Author(s)

Qing Wei ¹, Ziqian Guo ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, 650000, China

Corresponding Author

Qing Wei

ABSTRACT

Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, his first novel Memory of Departure, which is set in a 1960s East African seaside town and tells the story of its protagonist Hassan's growth process. Based on the theory of trauma, this paper discusses the causes of Hassan's multiple trauma causes and how he recovers these traumas to achieve spiritual rebirth. This paper in order to encourage modern people to have the courage to face the spiritual trauma, and to face the future with a positive and optimistic attitude.

KEYWORDS

Memory of Departure; Gurnah; trauma; recovery

CITE THIS PAPER

Qing Wei, Ziqian Guo, An Analysis of Hassan's Growth Process in Memory of Departure from the Perspective of Trauma Theory. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 110-115. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070417.

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