From Trauma to Recovery: An Interpretation of Singer’s Enemies: A Love Story  

作　　者：HUANG Li-li 

机构地区：[1]Center for Library and Information Technology,Anhui University of Finance and Economics,No.962 Caoshan Road,Bengbu,Anhui,P.R.China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2022年第3期209-221,共13页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：American Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies:A Love Story explores the experience of Holocaust survivors in post-Holocaust America.The novel takes the entangled relationship between the protagonists as the primary developmental clue,mirroring the plights that the American Jewish immigrants have encountered in this new land of promise.Through the description of the living conditions of those Holocaust survivors in the post-Holocaust era,the novel reveals the catastrophic trauma of the Jewish individuals and the whole Jewish nation.This article delves into the psychological trauma of those Holocaust survivors,and explores the journey of recovery they are searching by a combined analysis of their traumatic experience and symptoms.By applying the trauma theory to interpret this novel,it is aimed not merely to depict the traumatized history of the Holocaust and its universe evil from a new perspective,but to remind the readers that history cannot be forgotten.

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分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]