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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]