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Absence and Fragmentation: Slavery as a Trauma in Ponciá Vicêncio

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According to Sigmund Freud (1996c, 1996b), a trauma is an experience of remembrance characterized by an intensity too great to be absorbed. In this case, the traumatic event assumes such a magnitude that the person who experiences it, remains incapable of perceiving and understanding it since the limits of perception have been overwhelmed. In his text “Literatura e Trauma” (2002), Márcio Seligman-Silva defines trauma as a wound in the memory that disrupts a person’s capacity for comprehension like an injury bleeding without control.

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Feijão, G. (2020). Absence and Fragmentation: Slavery as a Trauma in Ponciá Vicêncio. In: Frank-Job, B., Michael, J. (eds) Angstsprachen . Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30180-4_14

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