DISPLACEMENT AND TRAUMA IN ISABEL ALLENDE’S THE WIND KNOWS MY NAME
Keywords:
Migration. Trauma. Testemony.Abstract
This article aims to analyze the representation of displacement and trauma in Isabel Allende's The Wind Knows My Name (2023). The novel is built in distinct temporal planes—the past, specifically the years 1938 and 1958, and the present, between 2019 and 2020. The plot revolves around two main characters: Samuel Adler, an octogenarian who survived Nazism by being transported, at the age of five, from Austria to England on the Kindertransport, and Anita Díaz, who left El Salvador with her mother seeking refuge in the United States in 2019 and, after being arrested by border police, was sent to a camp for children of undocumented immigrants in Nogales. For the purposes of this analysis, we draw on theoretical perspectives on migration, trauma, and testimony.
