Narrative Production by Trauma Sufferers: With Particular Reference to William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)

Abstract

Trauma studies, as consolidated in the 1990s from a trans-disciplinary perspective, have come to attach fresh significance to narrative production by trauma sufferers. William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault, a novel featuring a girl injured during the Irish War of Independence, describes the difficulties trauma sufferers have to face in constructing their own narrative for recovery and apprises the reader of their long suffering from a medical point of view.