Luis Sepúlveda, a Chilean writer and political activist, has always revealed very little about his personal experiences. In his novels, however, there are often autobiographical elements: the quiet pain for fallen comrades ...

The article focuses on two works that address the traumatic experience of the Stalinist regime and the Gulag system: Krutoj Maršrut [Into the Whirlwind, 1967] by Evgenija Ginzburg and Moskovskaja saga [The Moscow Saga, ...

Charles Nodier (1780-1844) is the author of the post-revolutionary generation who embodied the sense of trauma, pain, and remembrance. In his first novel, Les Proscrits, an anonymous character embodies the sense of this ...

In recent years, Spain has seen the emergence of numerous works by authors who, through personal or family experience, have developed a migratory background. In this essay, I aim to examine how their writing brings to ...

Since its institutionalization in 1970, testimonial writing in Latin America has developed along two main lines: on the one hand, texts in which an intellectual collects and organizes the words of subaltern subjects; on ...

This study aims to examine the linguistic dimension of a work whose narrative is set against the geographical backdrop of Martinique, where a contrast arises between the urbanized Fort-de-France and the “spontaneous” ...

This article examines the trauma of communal violence as depicted in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines (1988). The narrative centres on two traumatic episodes of catastrophic events that upend the lives of the anonymous ...