Disclosing the Hidden: An Impactful Journey of Intergenerational Trauma of Savkin Family in Susan Schaeffer's Anya

Abstract 

 Intergenerational trauma or Trans or Multigenerational trauma refers as a form of trauma passing from one generation to generation, not only biologically but through parenting or through social intelligence achieved in the stages of growth. The event may transfer from one generation to anyone like an individual, family or any group through multiple events leading to a collective trauma memory. The American author Susan Schaeffer's post- holocaust novel Anya (1973) is set in wartime Poland and it revolves the struggles of the Savikin family finding each of themselves from bricks and pieces dealing with identity issues, mental stress and agony to more generations to come. The work is delicately an experience of traumatic tastes in various life stages of Anya Savikin and her mother, the results of Anya as a holocaust survivor finding a life with a new identity. Intergenerational trauma exceeding from Anya towards her daughter in a new environment creates some different- difficult choices to make and to equate with those new generation.