토니 모리슨의 신이여 그 아이를 도우소서에 나타나는 아동 성폭력과 정동을 통한 외상의 극복 및 치유의 가능성
Child Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
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God Help the Child continues Toni Morrison’s focus on the most vulnerable characters and expands upon violence related to characters’ experiences that they painfully undergo in their childhood. Because of these traumatic experiences, characters in this novel cannot form positive relationships but end up destroying themselves and others. However, Morrison tries to find possible resolutions for these damaged children. This paper aims to analyze Morrison’s perspectives on child abuse through examining the strategy to transform how these characters can overcome their trauma and gain the power to rebuild their relationship. In order to analyze Morrison’s novel, the body of this paper consists of three parts. I will explore through textual evidence the way how children can be easy targets of violence by analyzing the structure of society and the reason why sexual assault is particularly frequent. In the next chapter, I will unpack the character Bride and her trauma with affect theory to scrutinize how traumatic experience can be turned into power to destroy others. Lastly, by tracking the relation of Rain and Bride, I will verify how traumatized children can build an supportive alliance.
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God Help the Child continues Toni Morrison’s focus on the most vulnerable characters and expands upon violence related to characters’ experiences that they painfully undergo in their childhood. Because of these traumatic experiences, characters in this novel cannot form positive relationships but end up destroying themselves and others. However, Morrison tries to find possible resolutions for these damaged children. This paper aims to analyze Morrison’s perspectives on child abuse through examining the strategy to transform how these characters can overcome their trauma and gain the power to rebuild their relationship. In order to analyze Morrison’s novel, the body of this paper consists of three parts. I will explore through textual evidence the way how children can be easy targets of violence by analyzing the structure of society and the reason why sexual assault is particularly frequent. In the next chapter, I will unpack the character Bride and her trauma with affect theory to scrutinize how traumatic experience can be turned into power to destroy others. Lastly, by tracking the relation of Rain and Bride, I will verify how traumatized children can build an supportive alliance.
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