Being captive in her own traumas, the character cannot avoid passing on her traumas to her only child. The trauma of Hiroko, as the witness and survivor, is presented by exploring the traumatic memories of her haunted past. The focus of the study is the representation of the traumas caused by atomic bombing and their physical and psychological transmissions to the next generations. This study aims to explore how transgenerational trauma is represented and engaged via the character Hiroko and her son Raza in the novel Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
Therefore, transgenerational cycles of trauma become inevitable in the family. Traumatic events are experienced by the victims, but their psychological impacts can be inherited by the next generations even if they do not experience the events at first hand. One of the issues that trauma studies discuss is the transgenerational transmission of trauma. Summary/Abstract: Trauma studies have has opened new paths in fiction to represent the sufferings of human beings. Published by: Editura Alma Mater Keywords: trauma traumatic memory transgenerational trauma atomic bomb Burnt Shadows Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology INHERITED TRAUMATIC MEMORY: THE REPRESENTATION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB AS TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA Author(s): Meryem Odabaşı INHERITED TRAUMATIC MEMORY: THE REPRESENTATION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB AS TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA
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