The lıfelong ımpacts of adolescent trauma ın the saffron kıtchen
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2015
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İnönü Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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Dividing an individual’s life cycle into eight stages, Erik Erikson (1963, 1968) believes that
adolescence period is one of the most critical phases of life when youngsters question all their
previously experienced confusions and crises in childhood, and for the first time they attempt to build up
their initial form of identities. In this period, young people seek for more independence and authority to
be free to make their own choices which might result in serious disputes and fights for dominance
between them and their parents who believe “their almost-adult children want nurturance and need
protection” (Donoghue, 2005). In many cultures, this bilateral challenge over gaining dominance,
recognition, and respect gives rise to adolescents’ facing parental or societal aggression which is likely
to “evoke anger, humiliation, alienation, and depression” throughout their lives (Straus, 2009). As a
result, they fail to establish “an achieved identity” (Erikson, 1963, 1968). This study is an attempt to
investigate how teenage traumatic experiences might leave a long-lasting influence on an individual’s
identity throughout his/her life. To examine the effects of parental and/or cultural hostility on the
process of identity development of youth, the life cycle of Maryam- the Persian female protagonist in
The Saffron Kitchen written by Yasmin Crowther- is analyzed. This study will primarily focus on
Maryam’s distressful experiences that have generated from her father’s authoritarian parenting style, the
corporal and physical punishments that he has applied on her, as well as the rape trauma that she has
experienced at the age of seventeen. This paper will manifest the consequences of these aggressive
stances during the process of her identity development.
Keywords: Trauma, The Saffron Kitchen, Yasmin Crowther
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İnönü Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Cilt 4, Sayı 2, 2015, s. 83-90.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Trauma, The Saffron Kitchen, Yasmin Crowther
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İnönü Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
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Amır Safai, L. The lıfelong ımpacts of adolescent trauma ın the saffron kıtchen.
