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Abstract
This essay examines psychological and sociological trauma in Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms and employs textual analytic method to read the novel, thereby, using qualitative research methodology. The psychoanalytic research method is used to ground the novel and the following findings were made that Abubakar Ibrahim in Season of Crimson Blossoms, demonstrates how trauma and society affects the members of the society and individuals. A handful of the characters used in the novel suffered varying degrees of trauma which affected their relationship with other characters. Fa’iza, for example, suffered psycho-trauma as a result of the religious crisis that ended the life of her father and her brother. As a result of this psychological trauma, she behaves like one possessed by demons; she could not stand the sight of blood or even meat. On the other hand, Hajiya Binta is another victim of trauma as illustrated by Ibrahim in his book. She suffers a higher level of trauma both psychologically and sociological; from being traumatised by the series of events in her life that altered her emotions then to the society who constantly mocks and spite on her image because she has found the one thing that she lost all her life. In conclusion, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, uses his debut novel, Season of Crimson Blossoms, to demonstrate how trauma has an effect on the members of the society both the young and old.
