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Item Racial Trauma and Self-Healing in Jefferson’s Negroland A Memoir(Faculty of Art in English, 2018-02) Rai, PurnimaThis dissertation explores Margo Jefferson’s politics of memory about the encountering experience of bias that resulting trauma to author. The double rejection leads Jefferson to suicidal moves and difficulties to her clan, the neo-aristocrat African- American. Jefferson’s Negroland A Memoir unfolds the mainstream American society’s discrimination to the Non-white elite African- American more on the ground of the skin color than economy and position. This memoir is righteous confession of Jefferson’s hindrance between dilemmas of sophisticated aristocrat which is taken as deleterious in eyes of Negroes who lacks the sufficiency and always biased by American whites in term of color, race and an origin. Author has adopted in this memoir to heal her racial wound through or used theoretical frameworks are, Politics of Memory of humiliation, rejection, and racial discrimination which have endorsed psychic trauma to her. It is her cleverness to imprint those traumas into words or proposed by Suzzate A. Henke “Scriptotherapy” with Lacapra’s “Working Through” to eradicate sad memories and continuously self-healing for re-organizing, reenacting, re-living and co-opting into the society with normal life.Item Responsibility to the Traumatised Other in Manto’s Partition Stories(Central Department of English, 2016) Rai, PurnimaThis dissertation concentrates on or analyses Sa’adat Hassan Manto’s partition stories that reflects or presents his humanism through the emphasis on responsibility to the Other, in this case, towards the traumatised partition victims. Furthermore, his partition stories present the realism of partition violence starkly but humanistically-morally rather than culturally-ethically. Drawing upon the theory of responsibility to the Other, this dissertation assumes that to be considered a good, true and authentic representation of communal violence, literature should be purged of all sentimentality of the writer and s/he should take the moral responsibility for all crimes and evils committed by giving agency to the traumatised victims, and Manto’s partition stories have these mentioned qualities. This dissertation draws upon Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of responsibility to the Other, Jacques Derrida’s concepts such as “democracy to come,” “cosmopolitanism,” and “forgiveness;” and Giorgio Agamben’s concepts such as “Muselmann,” bare life, and agency. By drawing upon the mentioned theorists, this dissertation argues that Manto’s partition stories are true and authentic representation of macabre violence which invests the victims with the agency of their trauma; and projects him as a responsible writer and a true humanists, a champion of the human rights.