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| Article Name : | | | TESTIMONIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE MOVIE TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE | | Author Name : | | | Amol Digambar Khedekar | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4769 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Twelve Years a Slave is a historical drama movie and an adaptation of the memoire of Solomon Northup, a slave. His struggle for survival and its consequent mancipation forms the main theme of the memoire and the movie version. This article probes into the historical relevance of testimony in portraying the trauma. Testimony, its importance and how the traumatic incidents in the life of Solomon are represented in the movie are discussed. It also deals with the importance of memories in the representation of trauma with reference to the movie. | | Keywords : | | |
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