NDiaye delves deeper, to reveal his trauma through the sins of his father, a Basque who built Dara Salam.
She adds, "When you hear him talk about his work, you can really imagine him processing his trauma through food.
It has a stage, where the psychologists and teachers try to help the children tackle some of their trauma through performance.
I believe I was experiencing vicarious trauma, through the weekly retelling of Australia's colonial history, and the links between this history and our present.
As in Faulkner and Morrison, portentous sentence rhythms are the sign of the seriousness of Ward's subject, and of the trauma through which her characters have passed and will, inevitably, pass again.
To have a brief understanding of trauma is to know that a traumatised young person, perhaps one suffering from PTSD for example, will try to work through their trauma through re-enactment to master their emotions.
I know something about time flow blocked by trauma, through the fixation of a few freezed images directly on the iconic side of memory, but what about the perception of space that derives from this fragmentation of time?
Spike Milligan, who suffered from shellshock in Italy during the war, became obsessed with reliving his wartime trauma through bizarre sketches involving Hitler as George Formby; or married to the Queen and running a cornershop as Jews.
Adrian Edelston-Stone, for example, once a junior guardsman in the Infantry Unit of the Coldstream Guards, describes how he watched some of his comrades experience trauma through fighting while he appeared to be fine.
The New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal revealed the bloodthirsty culture of professional football at the same time as Junior Seau's suicide called attention to the mounting evidence that players risk severe brain trauma through repeated concussions.
Likewise, the collection's title story filters trauma through the tale of another feckless father ("By the time my father's drunk six beer, his accent is thick.... Ten beer and my father lets some German words slip in").
