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The Traumatized as Traumatizer in Yussef El Guindi's Back of the Throat

المصدر: مجلة كلية الآداب
الناشر: جامعة الفيوم - كلية الآداب
المؤلف الرئيسي: Sirwah, Khaled Saad (Author)
المجلد/العدد: مج12, ع1
محكمة: نعم
الدولة: مصر
التاريخ الميلادي: 2020
الشهر: يناير
الصفحات: 275 - 323
DOI: 10.21608/JFAFU.2020.47037.1223
ISSN: 2357-0709
رقم MD: 1117777
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
اللغة: الإنجليزية
قواعد المعلومات: HumanIndex
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كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية:
Violation | Attacks 9/11 | Fear | Trauma Survivors | Cynicism | Psychological Trauma | Scapegoating | Physical Verbal Attack | Arab/Muslim American
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المستخلص: Drawing on a psychoanalytic approach, the present paper tackles Yussef El Guindi‟s Back of the Throat (2006) as a study of the American attitude towards Arab/Muslim Americans after the 9/11 attacks, with a special focus on the traumatic effects arising from police interrogations throughout the play. This is done by employing such features as fear, verbal and physical attacks, inhuman practices, cynicism, scapegoating, etc. as negotiated by psychoanalysts like Allan Young, Philip Bonifacio, Marna Young and others. In a seven-character one-act piece, El Guindi illustrates how the police officers, traumatized by the 9/11 attacks, pass on their own trauma to innocent people on so fabricated evidence that they may appear as more sinned against than sinning. The paper has reached three findings. (1) The playwright fulfills his target of showing the American traumatization of Arab/Muslim Americans as due to the West‟s old view of the latter as inferior and uncivilized. (2) Trauma survivors (the police officers) usually have to pass their trauma on to their victims (by means of cynical inhuman practices). (3) The 9/11 acute trauma has developed into different chronic traumas due to passing it on to others.

ISSN: 2357-0709