New Tracks of Trauma in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban

Trauma studies are essential because they shed light on the development and incoherence of men's and women's social identities and, in some situations, certainly illustrate cultural gender combinations. Trauma is a common theme in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban. Since the 1990s, this concept has been growingly addressed in literary studies, and, more notably, studies on trauma have started to focus on gender issues, taking a different path than those that deal with the Holocaust, violence, and wars. In this paper, some of the female characters in the novel under scrutiny experience various types of trauma. Traumatic experiences are linked to the characters' life stories and the codes of behavior that male dominance expects them to follow. The cultural structure, and the person's life identity within that sociocultural setting, can give traumatic significance to occurrences that would normally be gloomy or distressing. Individuality is developed through interactions between personal experiences and the social context in which a person lives. This paper examines the experiences and circumstances that led to trauma for female characters and the role of socio-cultural circumstances in trauma. Dreaming in Cuban centers on characters who share common thoughts and feelings in their Caribbean ancestral homes and their diasporic movement patterns to the United States. In the novel, trauma is explored through differing viewpoints, and diasporic movements become significant because they are linked to the trauma some female characters experienced all through their lives. Consequently, this paper aims to discuss these diasporic actions and analyze their impact on the characters' traumatic experiences.