Dr. Chitra.V. S Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Mahatma Gandhi College (University of Kerala) ([email protected]) Abstract Literature offers a fertile soil for depicting the feelings of displacementgenerating psychological aberrations of trauma. Inthis sense, the term trauma of displacement offers a new perspective. Undoubtedly, the imprints of trauma in the displaced is irrevocable and creates a […]
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Reading Home as a Space of Trauma in Trezza Azzopardi’s The Hiding Place
Bonjyotshna Saikia Research Scholar, Department of English, Tezpur University ([email protected]) Abstract Trezza Azzopardi’s The Hiding Place (2000) is a novel about traumatic childhood experiences in the familial context, within the home. The concept of “trauma” in this paper encompasses an individual’s suffering, and in doing so, the paper attempts to read the nuances of traumatic […]
The White Standard of Beauty and its Traumatic Impact: A Study of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Chitra Pegu Ph. D. Research Scholar, Central University of Haryana ([email protected]) Abstract Beauty is defined by individual senses or mind. Since our minds and senses differ individually, the idea of beauty also varies accordingly. It is all about how we shape our mind and how we get ourselves influenced by the others’ definition of beauty. […]
Voices Doomed In The Abyss Of Trauma: Discussing Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Dr. Joseph Varghese Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin ([email protected]) Ms. Vani Maria, Jose Assistant Professor, Sree Sabareesa College, Kottayam Abstract The notion of trauma rose into prominence with the publication of Caruth’s Unclaimed Experiences: Trauma, Narrative and History(1996) and Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub’s Testimony: Crises of witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History(1992).Trauma […]