Drawing theoretical insights from Rosemarie Thomson, Cathy Caruth, and Judith Butler among others, the paper explores the process of the autodiegetic narrator’s retelling, retracing, and recollecting a traumatic past. This paper is an attempt to read the novel’s depiction of trauma and the body, and the nuanced psyche of stigmatisation through the lens of trauma psychology and disability studies, and to read home as a space not of security, but of horror. Dolores’s disfigured hand as the object of stigmatisation ushers a series of corporeal and verbal abuse. The concept of “trauma” in this paper encompasses an individual’s suffering, and in doing so, the paper attempts to read the nuances of traumatic and post traumatic psychology. Trezza Azzopardi’s The Hiding Place (2000) is a novel about traumatic childhood experiences in the familial context, within the home.
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