Attachment Trauma and the Role of A Secure Base in Kopano Matlwa’s Evening Primrose | ||
| Anbar University Journal of Languages & Literature | ||
| Article 27, Volume 14, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 671-692 PDF (511.71 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.37654/aujll.2022.179857 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Dhyaa Waheed Ghafeer1; Omar Mohammed Abdullah2 | ||
| 1College of Arts, University of Anbar | ||
| 2College of Education for Women, University of Anbar | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current research goes against the subjects of the past works that illuminate any particular traumatic form,whether sociopolitical, multicultural, racial, criminal, or environmental. Again, in a vast contrast to the Holocaust trauma, the current paper, nevertheless, endeavors mainly to discuss the contemporary oeuvre of trauma fiction, Evening Primrose (2018), by Kopano Matlwa,via the psychoanalytical lens of Allen’s attachment trauma. Thus, the paper will identify the heinous appearance of attachment trauma and its insufferable consequences on the selection's victimized characters, who are betrayed by their too-loved attachment relationships. It is also to examine the effective role of John Bowlby’s psychiatric concept of a secure base in the process of exploration through which a child’s familiarity develops so s/he may avoid being futuristically traumatized. However, if a child is environmentally or humanistically injured, this well-developmental process may renewably rebuild its fragmented personality and re-systemize its disorganized psyche. The study’s goal is to shed light on the most toxic and frequently prevalent type of attachment trauma, which occurs when a friend betrays or abandons his/her attachment companions all abruptly. Although the fiction the paper intends to analyze is reputedly studied from different sociopolitical and historical perspectives, it has never been previously analyzed in light of attachment trauma theory nor a secure base. So, this is the previously overlooked gap that this study aims to fill. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Kopano Matlwa; gang-violation; trauma; attachment trauma; secure base; Caruth; Allen; Bowlby | ||
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