Akhil Chandra Borah Research Scholar (M.phil), Dibrugarh University (Department of Political Science) ([email protected]) Abstract Amrita Pritam is known for her contribution towards the partition literature. In her writings, the readers can find the living history of the event of partition of India. Through her writings, readers can visualise and realise the actual trauma of the […]
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Locating Homophobic Violence and Trauma in the Short Film Touch
Silba R. Marak Research Scholar, Dept. of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus [email protected] Dr. Dwijen Sharma Dept. of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus [email protected] Abstract This paper analyses LGBTQ trauma as reflected in a short film Touch. It locates the spaces where homophobic violence mostly occurs – home, streets and educational institutions. Even […]
The Dislocated Self: Trauma in Wendy Pearlman’s We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled
Dr Shruti Das P.G. Department of English, Berhampur University ([email protected]) Mirza Ibrahim Beg Research Scholar,P G department of English, Berhampur University Abstract The Syrian civil war and the ensuing crisis is one of the largest humanitarian and geopolitical problems since World War II. Civil wars tear countries apart and the major casualties are the common […]
Negotiating the Construction of Alienated and Distorted Subjectivities through Traumatic Experiences in the memoirs of Salman Rushdie and Dom Moraes
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 […]