DISPLACEMENT, BETRAYAL AND HARROWING JOURNEY: A CRITICAL STUDY OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES IN FABIO GEDA’S IN THE SEA THERE ARE CROCODILES
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i6.2024.1816Keywords:
Displacement, Harrowing Journey, Traumatic Experience, Homeland, Asylum SeekerAbstract [English]
This study shall explore displacement, harrowing journeys, and traumatic experiences in the novel In The Sea There are Crocodiles (2010) by Fabio Geda. This paper shall examine the traumatic incidents faced by juvenile asylum applicants in the current situation and how a ten-year-old boy gets along to assert political asylum after enduring many trials and catastrophic events. Fabio Geda (1972) showcases images of perfidy, fright, gloominess, suspicion, and weariness in this novel. The unornamented fiction encapsulates the desire of a courageous boy who showcases resilience in such turbulent times. This paper shall explore how eviction from his homeland took him into and out of Iran, Turkey, and Greece, how he underwent the physical suffering of frontier checkpoints compressed into the bilge of forbidding profusion, and how the boy demonstrates an instance of courageousness, innocence, and faith. How a ten-year-old boy grapples with looking for himself and how he underwent traumatic situations throughout his harrowing journey. This paper explores how the hope of getting asylum makes him go through in the face of seemingly insuperable hurdles. This paper shall explore the difficulties faced by refugees in the present era due to current turmoil worldwide and the survival of the fittest test to survive an agonizing journey from Afghanistan to Italy. How war has displaced thousands of people across nations, and now they are struggling for asylum.
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