Samira Sabouri

You Never Listened: Trauma, Voice, and the Failure of Rites of Passage in Alice Munro’s “Forgiveness in Families”

This article analyzes Alice Munro’s “Forgiveness in Families” using trauma theory and rites of passage frameworks to examine how narrative voice enacts developmental arrest. Drawing on Bowlby’s attachment theory, Herman’s trauma model, and Turner’s rites of passage, the study examines how maternal overindulgence and...