Trauma And Black Self-discovery In Toni Morrison's Home

Résumé: Abstract This dissertation presents the traumatic dimensions and black self-discovery through the exploration of many themes such as manhood, white medical experimentations, and trauma war in Toni Morrison’s novel Home. The novel reveals numerous realistic facts about a neglected historical period and describes how the African Americans were suffering during the 1950s .Morrison portrays the story as a kind of trauma and sorrow in which the protagonist ‘Frank’ is trying to reconnect his experiences in order to be healed. This study is an attempt to analyze the novel and to cover the main events that happened during the 1950s era in the United States and especially during the Korean War. However the work should prove how Morrison seem to universalize the characters’ experiences, how Morrison develops the theme of manhood in the novel, and to what extent the process of healing and recovery is possible at the end of the novel .Besides, It aims to present Morrison's vision toward this period in which she declared that African Americans were still discriminated and segregated. It also deals with the psychological issues of the victims in the novel by going through a deep analysis to cover the Psycho-traumatic dimensions. Describing and presenting all the aspects in the book, the study requires a socio-historical background about the United States during the 1950s. In addition to that, this work explores the meaning of trauma in order to give a comprehensible analysis about the individual and the collective traumatic experiences. The ultimate goal of the study is to expose the author's purpose behind writing such a novel, to highlight the efficiency of Trauma Theory as an analytical instrument to analyze the characters psyche and moreover, to transfer the findings and results of the research for a better appreciation of the novel.

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