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 […]
Author: Drishti: the Sight
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 […]
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 […]