چکیده

The critical work on fiction after 9/11 mainly focuses on the trauma experienced by characters. “Traumatic event,” “traumatic attack” and “traumatic moment” are all phrases which emerged in the post-9/11 culture and literature describing September 11, 2001 attacks. Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) best reflects the post-9/11 traumatic trait through representation of characters’ identity crisis, alienation and rootlessness in the intercontinental context. In Ali’s novel, 9/11 accentuates the characters’ traumatic condition to the point that their identity is disintegrated and their previous traumatic memories reoccur. This article probes Dominic LaCapra’s use of the terms “acting out and working through” as ‘‘the default theoretical groundwork for working with trauma’’ in Monica Ali’s post-9/11 novel. Deprived of individuality in their post-9/11 horrific surroundings, Ali’s characters are portrayed as traumatic individuals living a life of failure. Also memorably portrayed in Ali s novel, regarding its post-9/11 socio-cultural context, is the protagonist’s betrayed Western myth of freedom and fortune after 9/11.

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Post-9/11 Fiction, Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Trauma, Dominic LaCapra, Identity

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