الفهرس 
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Abstract
The present thesis is divided into three chapters and a conclusion. In general, the chapters discuss the two novels within the context of side-by-side comparisons. The first chapter builds on a general overview of trauma and diaspora. This chapter follows the development of trauma and diaspora as theories and the development of a new diasporic identity, which inspires the narratives of trauma and diaspora in order to represent, manifest and externalize the traumatic experience of dispersal. The second chapter delves into the way in which the two narratives manifest the traumatic experience of the two diasporas. The chapter discusses the manifestation of trauma in the light of the traumatic symptoms of dreams and nightmares, daydreams, hallucination, and phobia. As for the third chapter, it tackles the tools by which the traumatic experience of the two diasporas is externalized. This chapter exhibits the traumatic memory, traumatic language, traumatic silence, and traumatic double consciousness as influential instruments by which the novelists and their characters externalize their trauma while in diaspora. Based on the three chapters, the conclusion
of the study sums up what can be found beyond the two narratives of trauma and diaspora in relation to the construction of a post-traumatic diasporic identity that functions within a new narrative of life. The conclusion shows how the Somali and Iraqi new diasporic identities and their new narratives of life can finally be generated from the traumatic experience of dispersal.