TRAUMA AND ITS ARTICULATIONS IN THE POETRY BOOK ORDEALS BY SIMONA GRUEVSKA – MADŽOSKA

Abstract

Literary trauma studies place their research focus on the

modes in which personal experience is transformed into a literary work, and

the role that language and memory play in that transformation. Poetry with its

ellipses, symbolism and syntactic syncopations, can capture the most subtle

nuances of traumatic experiences, and through them express in words what is

initially unspeakable in trauma. This text analyzes the poems from the poetry

collection Ordeals by Simona Gruevska - Madžoska, applying the latest

theoretical reflections from the field of cultural and literary studies related to

the trauma.