The Journey of Self Discovery in Cheryl Strayed’s Memoir Wild (2012) and its Film Adaptation

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1 English Department, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University

2 Associate Professor of English Literature- Novel English Department Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education Ain Shams University.

3 Associate Professor of English Literature Novel English Department Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education Ain Shams University.

Abstract

The personal development of women is greatly influenced by the experiences they face from their early ages. Those women who are exposed to domestic violence in their childhood are more vulnerable to suffer from psychological disorder in their adulthood. These psychological problems are intensified if these women are exposed to another trauma along their lives. Shedding light on the suffering of women victims of psychological traumas and their way of recovery has been the main focus of myriad literary works which later on grab the attention of film industry. Therefore, this study aims to question Jean Marc Vallée’s cinematic adaptation (Wild 2014) of the memoir Wild: from Lost to Found in the Pacific Trail (2012) by Cheryl Strayed; it concentrates on studying the differences and similarities between two different media: memoir and film, through adopting Linda Hutcheon’s adaptation theory to embark upon a post-feminist approach clarified by both Angela McRobbie and Rosalind Gill. Moreover, this study explores the verbal and visual representations of the attempts of a woman writer in healing herself from serious psychological disorders. Through examining the theory of trauma and recovery by Judith Herman, this paper studies the efforts of a post-feminist protagonist in achieving recovery and her journey of self-discovery after being inflicted by repetitive traumatic incidents

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Volume 3, Issue 5 - Serial Number 5
Social sciences & Humanities
May 2023
Pages 1-23

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