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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 188–210PDF of Trauma, Memory, And Rhetorical Construction In The War Declaration Speeches of Putin, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Abbas, And Haniyeh: A Caruthian Reading

   Trauma, Memory, And Rhetorical Construction In The War Declaration Speeches of Putin, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Abbas, And Haniyeh: A Caruthian Reading

   Onesimus Azunwanna and Comfort Adeleke-Adeniji

   collective memory and its role in shaping national identities, with limited attention to trauma as a rhetorical strategy within contemporary war speeches. This study, therefore, examines the rhetorical deployment … trauma in five war declaration speeches each delivered by Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, and Ismail Haniyeh. Drawing on Caruth’s Trauma Theory, the study investigated

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 38–56PDF of Trauma and Identity Crises in Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter

   Trauma and Identity Crises in Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter

   Deborah Nwakuba, Somtochukwu Ogbuehi and Caroline Nwaka

   This study examines trauma and identity crises in Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter. The objectives of this study are to explore how psychological trauma is represented in the text … Psychoanalytic theory, drawing on Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, provides the study's theoretical framework. Trauma theory further guides the analysis of how traumatic experiences disrupt memory, selfhood, and narrative coherence

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 57–79PDF of Eco-Social Oppression and the Marginalised Child in Amma Darko’s Faceless and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

   Eco-Social Oppression and the Marginalised Child in Amma Darko’s Faceless and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi, Henrietta Okafor and Chidimma Irene Odoh

   Faceless and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation through Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory. It addresses the interconnected effects of poverty, environmental degradation, social injustice, war, child marginalisation … trauma in the two novels. Drawing on Caruth’s concepts of belatedness, repetition, fragmentation, unspeakability and witnessing, the study employs close textual and comparative analysis. It argues that Faceless portrays

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 88–101PDF of Traumatic Suffering in Roses and Bullets and Half of a Yellow Sun

   Traumatic Suffering in Roses and Bullets and Half of a Yellow Sun

   Ahaiwe Kenneth Chimezie, Eze Chidiebere C and Godline Nkeiru Chim

   continued to generate different critical arguments that validate the use of war and trauma narratives as important instruments for social reform. The emergence of war literature has created a link … levels of suffering and devastation that people went through in the historic war. The trauma theory conceptualized by Cathy Caruth was adopted in this research. This approach allows the flow

5. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 442–462PDF of Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   traumatic experience, memory, resilience, and identity are articulated. The study is theoretically grounded in trauma and embodiment studies, drawing on concepts that connect psychological experience, corporeality, memory, and representation. Methodologically

6. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 70–87PDF of Traumatic Voicing of Patients’ Relatives In Yejide Kilanko Stay With Me And Ayobami Adebayo's Daughters Who Walk This Path

   Traumatic Voicing of Patients’ Relatives In Yejide Kilanko Stay With Me And Ayobami Adebayo's Daughters Who Walk This Path

   Petrina Ebinehita Gber and Joy Nwiyi

   highlight a critical gap in both medical humanities and literary discourse. Adopting psychoanalytic and trauma theories as frameworks, this study interrogates the narratives in Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters Who Walk

7. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 102–120PDF of Traumatic Testimonies and the Redemption of Racial Memory in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon

   Traumatic Testimonies and the Redemption of Racial Memory in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon

   Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie and Okechukwu Emmanuel Agu

   Studies within this intellectual spectrum have served to preserve and propagate the memory of trauma that accompanied the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Plantation experience. Memory is expressed through … testimonies which evoke control over past experiences and its associated trauma. This paper argues that collective healing and redemption can be achieved through deliberate testimonies. Hinged on Carl Jung

8. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 23–46PDF of Climate Catastrophe and Postcolonial Ecologies in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction

   Climate Catastrophe and Postcolonial Ecologies in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction

   Pascal Iheanacho OHANMA and Onwuamaeze S. ALI

   informal settlements; Millar critiques coastal extractivism and marine commodification through bodily and ecological trauma; and Roffey deploys indigenous mythology to foreground human-nonhuman relationality and resist neo-colonial ecocide. Together