Trauma and female migration: a comparison between A. Kristof and O. Amarilis

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze migrations as collective traumas that modern and contemporary literature have had to convey. The recognition of trauma is one of the elements that characterize part of the female migrant narrative, especially in relation to the research for an identity that becomes more and more fluid due to the loss of roots. This visceral need to define the self finds a sounding board in the writing of migrant women, who seek in writing a measure to define themselves. The recognition of the trauma suffered is a way of speaking in order to get out of the condition of the object of the discourse and become the subject of the narrative and narrative agent. Various books are examples of this, including, in particular: Trilogia della città di K by Agota Kristof and Soncente. Racconti d’oltremare by Orlanda Amarilis.