Bonsai boy : the traumatised child in Emma Donoghue’s room

• Main Author: Tan, Marcus Yi Hern
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74203
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Much of existing theorisation of literary trauma privileges the adult perspective over the child perspective, with critics such as Cathy Caruth and Anne Whitehead focusing their research on narratives that revolve around adult victims—or sufferers—of trauma. This paper seeks to expand upon the exist...