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<p>The study focuses on the relationship between minority literature and collective trauma. Drawing on the theory of trauma, psychoanalysis, memory studies, and literary representations of memory, we argue that the trauma resulting from the suppression of Slovene identity in Trieste during fascism is transmitted into literary discourse through two channels. Firstly, through the normative model of remembering the trauma in question – namely through literary works that can be described as fictions of memory. Secondly, we paid attention to the manifestations of trauma that (unconsciously) enter the narrative structure, regardless of the time and events, which are not necessarily tied to the period of fascism and to concrete events and places of memory. In this context, we illuminated the literary characters from the perspective of literary imagology (the I and the Other).</p>
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The study focuses on the relationship between minority literature and collective trauma. Drawing on the theory of trauma, psychoanalysis, memory studies, and literary representations of memory, we argue that the trauma resulting from the suppression of Slovene identity in Trieste during fascism is transmitted into literary discourse through two channels. Firstly, through the normative model of remembering the trauma in question – namely through literary works that can be described as fictions of memory. Secondly, we paid attention to the manifestations of trauma that (unconsciously) enter the narrative structure, regardless of the time and events, which are not necessarily tied to the period of fascism and to concrete events and places of memory. In this context, we illuminated the literary characters from the perspective of literary imagology (the I and the Other).

Minority Literature and Collective Trauma: The Case of Slovene Triestine Literature

Univerza v Novi Gorici, Raziskovalni center za humanistiko / University of Nova Gorica

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja

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The study focuses on the relationship between minority literature and collective trauma. Drawing on the theory of trauma, psychoanalysis, memory studies, and...

Minority Literature and Collective Trauma: The Case of Slovene Triestine Literature

Published Online: Sep 29, 2023

Page range: 65 - 81

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig86.jun21.65-81

Keywords
collective trauma, collective memory, minority literature, Trieste, literary representations

© 2021 Ana Toroš, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Minority Literature and Collective Trauma: The Case of Slovene Triestine Literature

Published Online: Sep 29, 2023

Page range: 65 - 81

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig86.jun21.65-81

Keywordscollective trauma, collective memory, minority literature, Trieste, literary representations

© 2021 Ana Toroš, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
collective trauma, collective memory, minority literature, Trieste, literary representations