Dr. Breez Mohan Hazarika Associate Professor, Department of English, DCB Girls’ College ([email protected]) Abstract Collective trauma is a social cognitive process in which the combined population experiences trauma, consequent to the cataclysmic event. It affects entire groups of people, communities or societies. It often occurs during wars, subversive attacks, natural catastrophes, economic stagnation, pandemics, famines, […]
Month: March 2021
“Now We Breathe A Different Air”: Reading Post 9/11 Imaginary as a Site of Trauma in Ian Mcewan’s Saturday
Smitasri Joy Sarma Research Scholar, Tezpur University Abstract The 9/11 onslaught euphemized as a tragedy, moved beyond its locus to extract global attention. The cataclysmic sight of the collapsing towers marked a conspicuous blow to the super power i.e. the USA. Trauma in its protean moulds ensuing from the episode contours the immediate and belated […]
Trauma narrative as Spaces for Individual Empathy and Community Resistance : Thematic and Narrative Concerns in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sapna Kumari PhD scholar, Department of English, University Of Delhi ([email protected]) Abstract Maya Angelou, a feminist, a poet, and a writer of autobiographies, is widely known for her empowering and liberating works. She lived through the times in America when women fought for rights beyond household. They fought for equal right and equal pay, marriage […]
Medical Humanities and Contemporary Literary Practices
Dr. Prasenjit Das Dept. of English, K.K.Handique State Open University [email protected] Abstract Septimus Warren Smith in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway committed suicide by jumping down from the window. He was mentally and emotionally devastated by the experiences in World War I. Through a character like Septimus, Woolf, back in 1922, was not only providing […]