Soldiers and indians
victim and perpetrator traumas in sebastian barry’s days without end
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.23.3.100-112Palavras-chave:
trauma literature, cultural trauma, The Great Irish Famine, Irish diaspora, American warsResumo
The aim of this article is to explore the representation of victim and perpetrator traumas in the novel Days Without End (2016),
by the Irish author Sebastian Barry (b. 1955). The protagonist-narrator, Thomas McNulty, is an Irish immigrant who runs away from the Great Famine (1845-1852) in Ireland to the United States and, alongside with his North-American partner John Cole, fights in the Indian Wars and in the Civil War (1861-1865). Drawing from the studies of scholars such as Cathy Caruth (1996), Piotr Sztompka (2000), Jeffrey Alexander (2004), Bernhard Geiser (2004), and Roy Eyerman (2011), among others, this article seeks to demonstrate that the narrative of Days Without End intertwines the individual traumas of the protagonist to cultural traumas of Ireland and the United States.
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