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 […]
Author: Drishti: the Sight
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 […]
Representation And Narration Of Trauma In Don Delillo’s The Body Artist
Abhijit Sarmah M Phil Scholar, Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Assam ([email protected]) Abstract As Giles Foden points out in his review, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth book The Body Artist is unlike any of the author’s previous as well as latter works (Foden). Even though much has been written about the author’s exceptional treatment of time, grief […]