Abstract: Corregidora (1975), Two Wings to Veil My Face (1983), and The Chaneysville Incident (1981) are novels written by different authors, each presenting an African American person in contemporary American society haunted by traumatic memory of the family. In these texts, the narrative structures are deliberately broken up by the authors to restore the discontinuous and fragmented status of history, making the intangible traumatic experience comprehensible. In this way, the texts reveal the significant effects of the traumatic past of African American families on successive generations. Faced by the crisis of representation, the carrier group represented by Ursa, Nathaniel and John, reconstructsthe traumatic memory in familial history via rethinking of their relation to the history, eventually realizing the representation of trauma.

Key words: Corregidora, Two Wings to Veil My Face, The Chaneysville Incident, cultural trauma, representation