Intellectual Thought and Trauma: The Text “A Search for a Panorama for a Time Other than the Day” as an Example

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  • Nafeesa Ismail Haji College of Languages, University of Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan Region

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https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v12n4a1620

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   The memory is both individual and collective and both can be effected by genocide. Genocide can cause trauma, whether personal/psychic or cultural/collective, which is a psychological wound. Trauma is the people, organizations and nation’s old experiences, which cannot be forgotten even if they want to. Cultural trauma takes place when the people of a community are exposed to a fearful event or genocide, which impacts on their consciousness and leaves an ongoing impact on their collective memory, which changes their identity in future. Kurdish history is full of dreadful events. Because of the circumstances that followed the March 1991 uprising, Kurdish writers embodied in their literary texts the themes of freedom of expression, past injustices, national issues, and the traumatic events suffered by the Kurdish people. The failure of the Kurdish revolution of September in 1975 was one of the disasters that the Kurdish people suffered. Although the failure of the revolt had an important impact on the future of the Kurds as a nation, there is no great interest to present it as a cultural trauma in narrative texts by the Kurdish writers. In this paper, we tried to prove that Anwar Muhammad Taher in his text (An Attempt at Arranging a Panorama for the Time When a Solar Eclipse Happened) dealt with that. This study is an attempt to illustrate the cultural/historical trauma as well as how the writer has presented the failure of the revolution as a cultural trauma. It became clear from the analysis of the text that Tahir emphasized on cultural trauma. Despite that the writer having used symbols to name the revolution, he has presented the impact of the event on the people’s future and society and its political consequences.

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2023-11-25

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Ismail Haji, N. (2023). Intellectual Thought and Trauma: The Text “A Search for a Panorama for a Time Other than the Day” as an Example. Academic Journal of Nawroz University, 12(4), 868–874. https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v12n4a1620

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Vol. 12 No. 4 (2023)

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