创伤理论视角下《追风筝的人》的研究_英语论文

A Study of The Kite Runner From Trauma Theory

摘要

美籍阿富汗裔作家卡勒德·胡塞尼在其处女作《追风筝的人》中用简朴的语言向读者描绘了一个阿富汗男孩的心路成长历程。胡塞尼在其作品中对人与人之间的爱、背叛和救赎给予了高度关注。《追风筝的人》深刻地描绘了在拥有灿烂文化但同时又饱受战争和贫穷荼毒的阿富汗土地上，主人公阿米尔在经历亲情疏离、背叛、政变、外敌入侵、塔利班统治和逃亡等一系列悲剧之后，选择勇敢面对过去，最终走上救赎之路的故事。本论文从创伤理论出发，探讨《追风筝的人》中的人物所遭受的创伤以及创伤修复。

关键词: 卡勒德·胡塞尼；《追风筝的人》；创伤理论

Abstract

Khaled Hosseini, the Afghan American writer, displays a road of an Afghan boy to manhood with his simple and unadorned description in his first novel, The Kite Runner. In his works, Hosseini has attached great attention to love, betrayal and redemption among people. In The Kite Runner, the author conveys a profound description of a story that on the Afghan land overflown with splendid culture yet tortured by wars and poverty, after having suffered the family alienation, betrayal,  coup, foreign invasion, and Taliban ruling, the protagonist Amir eventually chooses  to confront the past, and sets out stepping on the path to redemption. Based on the trauma theory, the paper will discuss the trauma suffered by the individuals and post-trauma counseling in The Kite Runner.

Keywords: Khaled Hosseini  The Kite Runner  Trauma theory   

Contents

Acknowledgments I

Abstract II

摘要 III

Chapter One Introduction 1

1.1 A Brief Introduction To Khaled Hosseini and The Kite Runner 1

1.2 Literature Review 1

1.3 A Brief Introduction to Trauma Theory 2

1.4 Composition of the Paper 3

Chapter Two Traumas In The Kite Runner 4

2.1 Individual Trauma 4

2.1.1 Amir —Slave of Guilt and Remorse 4

2.1.2 Baba—A Divisive Individual 5

2.2 National Trauma 6

Chapter Three Healing from Trauma 8

3.1 Reconstructing Traumatic Memory 8

3.2 Speaking Out the Past 9

Chapter Four Conclusion 10

References 11