163025 20260505135412.0 doi 10.1080/0013838X.2025.2520769 sideral 145355 ART-2025-145355 eng Duce, Violeta (orcid)0000-0002-5534-3612 Questioning Standard Definitions of Trauma: Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) as a Literary Representation of Trauma in Transmodern Times 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted his article analyses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) as a trauma account and transmodern narrative, highlighting the impossibility of analysing its main characters by means of the victim/perpetrator binary traditionally employed in trauma studies. Given the centrality of border crossing (physically and metaphorically) in Adichie’s narrative, and considering the present hybridity in modern societies, this essay examines the blurring of trauma categories in postcolonial scenarios where, as it will be further discussed, the individual and the collective are intrinsically connected. By addressing the novel’s diverse viewpoints, this reading of Half of a Yellow Sun emphasises the importance of a transcultural and more encompassing approach to trauma to explore the multidimensionality of war experiences in contemporary postcolonial spaces. The article concludes that Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun is a representative example of transmodern trauma fiction which responds to the destabilisation and transcending of limits that characterises present times. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FSE/H03-23R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-124841NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 106, 8 (2025), 1226-1247 Engl. stud. (Amst.) English studies (Amsterdam) 0013-838X 249027 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163025/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2027-01-23 1802028 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163025/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2027-01-23 oai:zaguan.unizar.es:163025 articulos driver 2026-05-05-13:52:58 ARTICLE