"I Felt All the Pangs of Exile": Trauma and the Fight for Human Rights in the Memoirs of Nabokov, Soyinka, and Danticat
Journal: ScholarWorks - Georgia State University (Georgia State University)
Year: 2022

Subjectivity in memoir allows room for the manipulation of identity and the reflection of how one?s identity has been manipulated. When breaches of human dignity occur, the discourse of trauma becomes an integral part of one?s identity. How then does socioeconomic background integrate with the traumatized self? Looking at the Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov as an example of a male, upper-class, immigrant memoir in relation to immigrant memoirs of different socioeconomic classes, like Wole Soyi