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Acting Out a Traumatic Memory Through Farcical Performance in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce

Prof. Sabah Atallah Diyaiy, (PhD), Ruaa Hussein Sofar

Volume: 10 Issue: 4 2020

Abstract:

Trauma is not an exclusively individualistic phenomenon due to its interrelation with politics, society, history, family and collective memory. Irish history is characterized by repeated and unresolved ordeals that make the traumatic memory lie at the centre of Irish drama. Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce focuses on the causes and catastrophic consequences of perpetrators’ trauma. This article discusses the effects of fetishistic narrative, postmemory, founding trauma and denial on identity, language and psychic stability of the family members. The play is analyzed through Bessel A. van der Kolk and Dominick LaCapra’s concepts of the traumatic memory and acting out trauma.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i04.038

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