The Trauma of Migration in the Novel 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid
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Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: This paper will examine how the trauma of refugees and essentially the trauma of migration is depicted in Mohsin Hamid's 2017 novel 'Exit West'. After laying the theoretical foundation of explaining the area of literary trauma theory, the role of migration in trauma studies as well as the notion of the Double Absence, the following analysis will examine the ways in which Hamid portrays the trauma of refugees in his novel and to what extent these ways line up with literary trauma theory.