CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN MAYA ANGELOU’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION – ABUSE AND DISPLACEMENT –
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN MAYA ANGELOU’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION – ABUSE AND DISPLACEMENT –

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses how trauma is represented in Maya Angelou’s autobiographical fiction, one of the most important themes in all her seven autobiographical novels and an African American feminist marginalized experience that speaks about the intensity and effects of women’s oppression. It explores how the novelist locates traumatic affects in the protagonist, and suggests that Frantz Fanon’s model of racial trauma in Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth remains essential for the interpretation of postcolonial texts. My purpose is to explore the different juxtapositions that the story offers between individual and collective experiences of trauma and, in its explorations of memory and the collective histories of suffering.

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