Trauma That Outlives Time: A Transhistorical Analysis of Refugee Life in Elie Wiesel’s Night.

Abstract

The present paper “Trauma That Outlives Time: A Transhistorical Analysis of Refugee Life in Elie Wiesel’s Night” attempts to make an enquiry into the trauma and sufferings of refugee life. The memoir gives a detailed analysis of the real life experiences of the refugees of the Holocaust. Transhistorical Trauma is a major aspect of refugee literature especially in the Jewish Holocaust literature as the Jews were the victims of religious and racial discrimination. Transhistorism is a postmodern concept of analysing the historical documents based on varying interdisciplinary approaches. In Night, Elie Wiesel opens the eyes of the readers to the realities of the Jewish life by picturing the brutal genocide in the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. War and struggles make the pages of history ruthless and bloody. The paper focuses on how Transhistoricism is applicable to analyse refugee trauma that transcends the barriers of history.