The Traumatic Mark in Invisible Man
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1112.23Keywords:
trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, recovery of traumaAbstract
Invisible Man is the representative work of Ralph Ellison, a famous contemporary American black writer, which mainly describes the growing process of a black man. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the racial trauma that the protagonist experienced at school, in the factory and political group, the three kinds of symptoms after the trauma-hyperarousal, intrusion and constriction, and the result that the protagonist cannot recover from his trauma due to racial discrimination.
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