Suroshikha Debnath Research Scholar, Department of English, Tezpur University ([email protected]) Abstract The paper aims to study the role of trauma, death instinct in the construction of autobiographical subjectivities of the Indian English life narrators Dom Moraes and Salman Rushdie. With Freud’s theory of death instinct and Cathy Caruth’s treatise on trauma as theoretical frames, it […]
Month: March 2021
Aesthetizing Trauma: The Politics of Narration in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Surfacing’
Barnashree Khasnobis Lecturer, Presidency University, Bengaluru ([email protected]) Abstract The field of trauma literature has received critical attention from Freudian and Lacanian perspectives in works of theorists like Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Geoffrey Hartman. Understanding trauma in fictions, poetry, short stories and plays under the lens of socio-cultural framework has also remained under discussion. Comparative […]
Exploring Trauma through Survivor’s Testimony in Cat’s Eye
Sanjib Das Research scholar (M.phil), Dibrugarh University(Assam) ([email protected]) Abstract To understand the manifold responses to trauma, examining aspects of psychological functioning within the social or cultural environment is required. Fiction that depicts trauma incorporates varied responses and survival behaviours within the characterizations of survivors. Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer who often depicts characters as […]
The Insane Women- A “trauma” Reading of Felanee
Dr. Jayanta Madhab Tamuly Assistant Professor, Dept. English, Mahapurush Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya (([email protected]) Abstract This paper attempts an analysis of the elements of trauma in Felanee by Arupa Patangia Kalita. It examines how the origin, identity and development of certain characters of the novel are defined and determined by trauma .Though trauma cannot be called […]