Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance
In Post 9/11 fiction the concepts of memory, trauma and identity got much prominence in contemporary literature. However the major focus was on the westernized version of these constructs. Trauma, Memory and identity were represented as the privileged ones of the West. In such an attempt the sufferings of the Non Western i.e. Muslims were erased, neglected and represented as less privileged. The Non- Western literature in an attempt of recovery and writing against the “Literary Empire of Western Dominant Discourse” foregrounded trauma as a continuum which is historically entrenched, structurally reinforced, and entangled with the legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and racial violence imposed by West on its marginalized i.e. The Third World countries. Thus the Non-Western fiction became a vital space for bearing witness, recovering erased histories, and articulating alternative pathways to healing and resistance.
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Non Western Literature, Healing impact, Trauma, Erased Histories
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(1) Abdul Rashid
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Layyah, Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Reading United Kingdom.
(2) Samia Noreen
M.Phil. Scholar, Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Tanveer Baig
Assistant Professor, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Sub Campus Lodhran, Punjab, Pakistan.
Cite this article
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APA : Rashid, A., Noreen, S., & Baig, T. (2025). Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance. Global Sociological Review, X(III), 139-145. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2025(X-III).14
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CHICAGO : Rashid, Abdul, Samia Noreen, and Tanveer Baig. 2025. "Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance." Global Sociological Review, X (III): 139-145 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2025(X-III).14
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HARVARD : RASHID, A., NOREEN, S. & BAIG, T. 2025. Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance. Global Sociological Review, X, 139-145.
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MHRA : Rashid, Abdul, Samia Noreen, and Tanveer Baig. 2025. "Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance." Global Sociological Review, X: 139-145
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MLA : Rashid, Abdul, Samia Noreen, and Tanveer Baig. "Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance." Global Sociological Review, X.III (2025): 139-145 Print.
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OXFORD : Rashid, Abdul, Noreen, Samia, and Baig, Tanveer (2025), "Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance", Global Sociological Review, X (III), 139-145
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TURABIAN : Rashid, Abdul, Samia Noreen, and Tanveer Baig. "Trauma and Memory in the Non Western Literature: Fiction as a Site of Healing, Testimony, and Resistance." Global Sociological Review X, no. III (2025): 139-145. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2025(X-III).14