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Analysis reveals how trauma manifests through oppression and dehumanisation in enslaved women, highlighting the impacts of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
This paper examines the traumatic journey of enslaved women by analysing the oppression and anguish they are subjected to through the lens of trauma theory in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing (2016). The paper argues that the trauma that enslaved women encountered in Gyasi’s Homegoing takes the form of rape, dehumanisation and deprivation, which were practices rooted in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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