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Requiem itani6/1/2023 Through an application of Cathy Caruth's and Judith Herman's theories on trauma and recovery, I analyze the narrative strategies Okada, Kogawa, and Itani employ to represent trauma and its manifestations in their novels. Other than the trauma of the internment experience, trauma in this thesis also includes being a target of racism, childhood trauma that stems from parental separation or abandonment, and the trauma of child sexual abuse. Trauma and the limits of post-traumatic healing in John Okada's No-No Boy (1957), Joy Kogawa's Obasan (1981), and Frances Itani's Requiem (2011), three novels set against the backdrop of the Japanese internment experience in the United States and Canada. In this thesis, I examine the representations of TRAUMA AND HEALING IN NO-NO BOY, OBASAN, AND REQUIEM. TRAUMA AND HEALING IN NO-NO BOY, OBASAN, AND REQUIEM
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