ZLOČIN, KAZNA I TRAUMA: PERSPEKTIVA POČINIOCA U ROMANU SVE PTICE PEVAJU IVI VAJLD

Abstract

One of the most common words encountered in trauma discourse, the unspeakable, embodied in All the Birds, Singing as an antinomic non-linear narrative, serves to testify to the protagonist’s traumatic events as well as the otherness perpetrated by her traumatic experience. Relying on theories of Cathy Caruth, Dominick LaCapra and other major theorists of trauma, this paper aims to corroborate the claim that the ghosts and haunting elements encountered in the novel indicate both the protagonist’s guilty consciousness as well as perpetrator trauma. Extending the temporal distance between the other and herself, Jake is condemned to a sentence without a verdict, remaining imprisoned within perpetual nightmares and phantoms, hence infinitely searching for home devastated by trauma.