ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides an exploration of how complicated suffering emerges in literary representations, and it offers a critical approach to how such pain is validated globally. It examines modalities of psychological trauma in selected works by Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy to explore how women write trauma in different contexts in the global South. The book then concurs with the prominent consensus among cultural trauma theorists that processes of articulating traumatic memory are central to overcoming trauma. The discussion of Allende’s texts identifies maternal bereavement, exilic displacement and familial disintegration as complex and prolonged forms of traumatic wounds. In Forna’s novel The Memory of Love and in her memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, the aftermath of the Sierra Leonean civil war constitutes the contextual premise, based on which different destructive modes produce suffering.
