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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

   Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, and Ismail Haniyeh. Drawing on Caruth’s Trauma Theory, the study investigated how traumatic experiences, and narratives of victimhood are strategically articulated

2. 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

3. 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

   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

4. 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

5. 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

   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