Trauma in Drama: Relieving Suppression in Contemporary Monodramas of Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire and Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife
Nahidh Falih Sulaiman
PhD in Modern American Drama Faculty of Education for Humanities, Diyala University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.2.7
Keywords: -Trauma - self-destruction -self-treatment - Doug -Raffo
Abstract
Significantly, human life is reflected in literary works that covered the
suffering and painful moments. In literature, the spiritual wounds are
functioned to illustrate trauma and its effect on self-confidence.
Through acting situations, trauma is connected dramatically with
flashback and yesteryears images of self-destruction. Particularly, the
wounded self is analyzed through social and political perspectives in
which that self is examined and healed by the therapeutic
understanding that literature provides. Widely, this genre is given a
space in theatres to illustrate the stormy life of real and imaginative
characters who deeply discuss the traumatic effect and the foreshadow
bonds to the experiences of the past.
In monodramas, playwrights put into consideration the influence of
place and events in the reformulation of the self. Therapeutically, the
concept of trauma draws attention to the role of place and the subject
matter which are dealt with metaphorically by characters. The variant
