The challenges of recovering from individual and cultural trauma in Toni Morrison's "Home"

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dc.contributor.authorIbarrola Armendariz, Aitor
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-24T13:48:43Z
dc.date.available2026-09-24T13:48:43Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2026-09-24T13:48:43Z
dc.description.abstractThe journey back home to Lotus, Georgia, that the protagonist of Morrison’s latest novel, FrankMoney, undertakes is planted with too many obstacles to turn it into the kind of “reconnecting experience” that would help him to recover from the traumas he suffers from. Frank’s sense of alienation is exacerbated by some hateful childhood memories, his participation in the Korean War and his painful losses there, the failure to support thewoman he loves, and the racism that he still experiences in the U.S. of the 1950s. Home(2012) offers ample grounds to discuss topics such as acts of remembrance, memory traces, the politics of mourning, and direct (andindirect) representations of trauma and sorrow. Yet, the main question the novel poses is to what extent Frank’sjourney to rescue his younger sister, Cee, helps him to achieve some kind of redemption and whether that redemption is fully materialized at the end of the novel.en
dc.description.abstractEl viaje de regreso a su hogar en Lotus, Georgia, que realiza el protagonista de la última novela de Morrison, Frank Money, está plagado de obstáculos que impiden convertirlo en esa “experiencia rehabilitadora” que le ayudaría a recuperarse de sus traumas. La alienación que Frank experimenta está ligada a recuerdos de infancia, a su participación en la Guerra de Corea, su incapacidad para satisfacer a la mujer que ama y las actitudes racistas todavía presentes en los EE.UU. de los años 50. Home(2012) ofrece un terreno fértil para abordar temas como el impacto de los recuerdos, la gestión de la memoria y el duelo o las formas de representar el dolor y los traumas en la ficción. Sin embargo, la cuestión clave en esta novela es hasta qué punto el viaje que Frank hace para rescatar a su hermana le ayuda a redimir aspectos de su pasado y si esa redención resulta finalmente completa.es
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research carried out for the writing of this article has been partly funded by the Spanish Ministryof Economy and Competitiveness (codes: FFI 2011-23598 and CSO2011-24804)en
dc.identifier.citationIbarrola Armendariz, A. (2014). The challenges of recovering from individual and cultural trauma in Toni Morrison’s «Home». IJES: international journal of English studies, 14(1), 141-160. https://doi.org/10.6018/IJES/14/1/179921
dc.identifier.doi10.6018/IJES/14/1/179921
dc.identifier.eissn1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn1578-7044
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/6691
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones
dc.rights© Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de Murcia.
dc.subject.otherTrauma Fiction
dc.subject.otherToni Morrison
dc.subject.otherHome
dc.subject.otherTraumatic memories
dc.subject.otherPolitics of mourning
dc.subject.otherCultural trauma
dc.subject.otherRecovery processes
dc.subject.otherRepresentation of trauma
dc.subject.otherNarrativa sobre trauma
dc.subject.otherRecuerdos traumáticos
dc.subject.otherGestión del duelo
dc.subject.otherEl trauma cultural
dc.subject.otherProcesos de recuperación
dc.subject.otherLa representación del trauma
dc.titleThe challenges of recovering from individual and cultural trauma in Toni Morrison's "Home"en
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage160
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.startPage141
oaire.citation.titleIJES: international journal of English studies
oaire.citation.volume14
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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