The role of trauma in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game as a postcolonial bildungsroman

Abstract

The topic of this thesis is trauma in Rawi Hage’s novel De Niro’s Game. The aim of the thesis is to explore the characteristics that make Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game a postcolonial Bildungsroman and to compare the characteristics of the novel to the characteristics of the postcolonial Bildungsroman demonstrating the significance of trauma in postcolonial Bildungsroman and in Hage’s novel.