Recollecting the Past

Memory plays a vital role in story telling which had a central theme that narrates, build and rebuild the collective past memory of an individual to identify their identities through the known process of revealing the truth either subjective or objective. The novel The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah explores the protagonist recollecting the past events through trauma. Gurnah delves into the intricacies of identity by means of past events and striking narratives, delving subjects such as memory, trauma, identity and the challenge of reconciling the past and present. The Last Gift explores the intergenerational traumas and the searching for identity of the immigrants in the world. This paper strongly depicts how migration disconnects individuals from the memory of their native and recollecting the past for the search of their identities

Collective memory · Immigration · Cultural Identity and Representation · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Social Movements and Cultural Identity