An Analysis of Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child from the Perspective of Trauma Theory

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10.2991/assehr.k.191217.253How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Morrison, God Help the Child, childhood trauma

Abstract

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is not only an African American woman writer, but also one of the world’s most outstanding novelists. Her work portrays the traumatic history of African Americans that they have been suffered for more than a century. Morrison has published 11 novels since the 20th century, all these novels deal with the trauma of the blacks. God Help the Child was published on April 30, 2015. In this book, Morrison once again touched the theme of the trauma of the black offspring, especially the impact and disturbance on the growth of black children in their childhood. This thesis analyzes the cause of the protagonist Bride’s childhood trauma as well as her and her lover Booker’s recovery process of getting out of their childhood trauma with the help of trauma theory.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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