Memory between Verbal Testimonies and Non-textual Means:. The Case of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers

      Аннотация: It is through all the previous aspects of body memories that the division of India is remembered. Shaun Singh Baldwin calls for new ways to recognize the nature of and reactions to trauma in multiple, particularly non-western constructs. Due to its potential as testimony, the human body is the most basic and powerful means to process the past. Mourning, tattooing, reincarnation, and postmemory are the essential elements that contribute to a wide discourse that concerns trauma and historiography during the Indian Partition. In What the Body Remembers, the human body serves as a catachrestic discourse that offers the voice to the subaltern to be heard, irrespective of what speech is meant to mean. Furthermore, Outside of our expectation of the horrible reflection of scars and the process of tattooing, in Baldwin’s text, they come out as a sense of recognizing the self which leads finally to healing. In her turn, Morrison provides her readers with a radical revision of the official history of those who suffer the atrocity of slavery and those who are deemed to be silenced because of the dominant Euro-American discourse. In doing so, the novel foregrounds the process of

Ключевые слова: memory, rememory, body memory, verbal testimony, non verbal testimony, The Self, individual and collective trauma, African American History, Slavery, Indian Partition.