• Shobha S Nair

This paper is propelled by the significance of the discourse of space in trauma theory and is an attempt to explore the construction of traumascapes as a means of negotiating identity in the new cultural spaces inhabited by the migrants.Though the migrants belong to a new geographical space, they attempt to construct their old space through the medium of cultural space. This cultural space is fabricated through the continuance of religious and social ideologies which function in linking the homeland to the migrated land, that is to say, the past with the present. As elaborated by Maria Tumarkin, ‘traumascapes’ are an attempt to commemorate traumatic events in their home land. In contrast, through the work Infidel, I would attempt to show how commemoration is carried out through a very novel means- creation of similar traumascapes in the host or migrated land.

cultural space, migration, cultural identity, traumascape, commemoration

"Materializing Cultural Identity through 'Traumascapes' in Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel:My Life", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.156-159, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904730.pdf

"Materializing Cultural Identity through 'Traumascapes' in Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel:My Life", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp156-159, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904730.pdf