Representation of War Trauma in Selected Short Stories of A Vital Killing and Fire and Forget: A Comparative Study

Representation of War Trauma in Selected Short Stories of A Vital Killing and Fire and Forget: A Comparative Study

This paper was a comparative study of two different worldviews, cultures and languages in the light of the same experience. It was an exploration of the overwhelmed psychology in the American short story collection, Fire and Forget: Short stories from the Long War edited by Roy Scranton and Matt Ghalagher and the Persian short story, A Vital Killing by Ahmad Dehghan translated recently by Caroline Croskerywhich examines the concept of memory within trauma criticism. Among each collections three short stories were selected, “Tips For a Smooth Transition”, “The Train”, and “Big Two-Hearted Hunting Creek” and from the Persian book, “The Passenger”, “Stamps” and “A Vital Killing” the characters have undergone traumatic losses, therefore suffer a painful psychic traumatic wound that keeps haunting them repeatedly.

This paper was a comparative study of two different worldviews, cultures and languages in the light of the same experience. It was an exploration of the overwhelmed psychology in the American short story collection, Fire and Forget: Short stories from the Long War edited by Roy Scranton and Matt Ghalagher and the Persian short story, A Vital Killing by Ahmad Dehghan translated recently by Caroline Croskerywhich examines the concept of memory within trauma criticism. Among each collections three short stories were selected, “Tips For a Smooth Transition”, “The Train”, and “Big Two-Hearted Hunting Creek” and from the Persian book, “The Passenger”, “Stamps” and “A Vital Killing” the characters have undergone traumatic losses, therefore suffer a painful psychic traumatic wound that keeps haunting them repeatedly.