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Item Exploration of Cultural and Gender Trauma in Taslima Nasrin's Lajja(Department of English, 2018) Khadka, SaritaThis present research focuses on the exploration of cultural and gender trauma in Taslima Nasrin's Lajja. It depicts the experiences of pathetic, depressed, helpless and traumatic Hindu females in Bangladesh after the incident of destruction of Babri Masjid in India on 6 December1992. The girl Maya is raped by Muslim boys only being the Hindu female. In this regard, the novel exposes how the Hindu females have to face the cultural and psychological torture in their own motherland being distinct religious background and identity. It shows the antagonistic relationship between Hindus and Muslims. Therefore, revealing out the issue of torture against the Hindu females in particular and Hindus in general in Bangladesh that creates cultural and gender trauma to the many characters throughout the novel is the main significance of the study. In order to analyze the text, gender and cultural trauma by Kali Tal, Crauth , Dominick LaCapra etc has been used as the theoretical tool in this research. By using the gender and cultural traumatic theory, the researcher explores the message that the psychological and cultural torture given to somebody only for having different sex and religion is in human, brutal and wild act.Item Gender Trauma in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus(Department of English, 2012) Gautam, Chandra KantaThe present research work tries to explore the female specific trauma evoking the tormented state of the protagonist, Kambili and her mother, Beatrice in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. Kambili’s father Eugene, a charismatic yet violent Catholic patriarch demonstrates his helpfulness and generosity in his community but at home he is repressive and fanatically religious. Because of Eugene’s demonic behaviors, they undergo series of physical, mental and emotional torture which haunts them time and again even in his absence. Eugene savagely beats and psychologically humiliates his wife and daughter by imposing his rigid religious doctrine in the name of protecting religious purity, norms and regulations. After visiting Nsukka, hometown of Aunt Ifeoma, Kambili develops her confidence to oppose her father’s torture and cruel attitudes. Similarly, when the torture reaches to the breaking point Mama Beatrice poisons her husband, a counter measure to redeeming herself and her children from the marginal border of taciturnity. After the murder of Eugene, they become free from authoritarian, ordered and scheduled life, which always kept them in fear and tension. They are trying to mitigate or soothe their unforgettable dark past memories to get certain relief in their life. Thus, by bringing into fore the physical and psychological tortures and sufferings of female characters, this research explores gender trauma in Kambili and her mother, Beatrice.Item Gender Trauma in Erica Jong's Fear of Flying(Department of English, 2014) Sharma, SujataThis research examines how a woman with a different cast of mind comes in a conflicting relation with society. In Erica Jong’sFear of Flying, a woman with dreadful and different taste undertakes a journey to Europe. The American society restricts her inner longing for freedom. So she takes a tour to Europe with her husband Bennett. She is, at first, thrilled with the free cultural zones of European cities. Dodging the eyes of Bennett, she sleeps with a man who is sexually virile and vigorous. She goes to the extent of being faithless to her loyal husband for getting different sexual taste from a strange man. Her husband abandons her as he knows her disloyalty. With the guilt of disloyalty, at her heart, she settles in London with her sex partner, Adrian. A few months after her living together with Adrian, she is awake to a new reality. Adrian leaves her because he is already a married man with two children and wife. Beset with disloyalty, guilt, dilemma, alienation and ignominy, Isadora cannot handle her life. She is traumatized beyond recovery.Item Gender Trauma in Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night(Department of English, 2019) Rana, ManjuThis research paper analyses gender trauma on Fitzgerald’s novel Tender Is the Night. Taking the ideas from Kali Tal, Judith Herman, CarthyCurth, UrvashiBhutalia and Kamala Bhasin’s notion of gender trauma the research analyses the mental illness of women and traumatic experience of women because of men’s unnatural behavior. In Tender is the Night, the female characters are traumatized by the men’s atrocities and increasing loneliness in domestic lives. Nicole is raped by her own father in her tender age and becomes a victims of sexual violence. The patriarchy is defined as a hypocritical nature of male atrocities and gender discrimination. Primarily, it focuses on the male atrocities which gives lots of torture to women. Women are traumatized from male atrocities and wild nature. Throughout the novel, Nicole represents the traumatic experience of women. Gender trauma is the consequences of male violence upon female and bearing sexual violence, suppression, oppression, domination and exploitation within their domestic sphere as well as public sphere in the society. The supreme ideology of male rules over the men trend society and constrained patriarchal norms and values. Gender trauma explicit when women remain in isolation, depression, rage, anxiety, and hyper alertness. The most crucial aspect is that they are from historically subordinated and on the side, they have no way out to reach their individual freedom. Under this kind of men’s suppression and oppression, the reaction of women character is outburst beyond the limit of male atrocities and gender discrimination. The intention of narrator is to reduce the trauma and resistance against male attitude. Women are living insecure life, as they are not safe by men’s immoral behavior even their own father and brother. Women are in danger because of male atrocities in the text. The injustice towards women: such as rape, abduction and domestic violence should be discouraged. So that women remains free from such traumatic condition.Item Gender Trauma in Preethi Nair's 100 Shades of White(Department of English, 2014) Bhatta, Hari PrasadThe major objective of this research is to portray how women in Nair’s 100 Shades of White are traumatized by plenty of factors like gender difference, traditional gender role, patriarchal domination, deceptive nature of husband, anti-immigrant attitude of English people and other exclusionary practices. In the patriarchal society, women are subordinated and subdued. The use of the perspective of gender trauma yields cause of Nalini’s traumatic sufferings. In the professional outer world, women are dispossessed and deprived of several economic opportunities. Contrary to Nalini’s expectation, her husband betrays her without revealing any previous indication. The sudden betrayal of Nalini by her husband inflicts traumatic attack on her delicate psyche. She feels that her life is shipwrecked totally beyond recovery. Out of her necessity to survive in the hostile metropolitan world of London she goes to several working places. She gets job but could not concentrate on her work due to her inner traumatic torture. Consequently, Nalini plunges into nightmare, depressive sense of constant anxiety and the haunting premonition that any disastrous thing can happen to her at any time. The discrimination of her children in school by school teachers and the fear of being assaulted by sexual predators put further traumatic torture in Nalini.Item Gender Trauma in Sharon E. McKay’s Thunder Over Kandahar(Department of English, 2017) Regmi, SantoshThis research work explores how female body becomes a site of gender violence, exploitation and torture in patriarchal Afghan society and causes gender trauma in Sharon E. McKay's Thunder Over Kandahar. The female characters in the novel go through continuous violence sometimes by male relatives and sometimes by religious fundamentalists in the name of Islamic rules. Yasmine and Tamanna are two central figures of the novel. Among them Yasmine and her mother have to face assault by fundamentalists in the name of violation of Islamic rules since they have come from England to their homeland. The continuous attacks make tham traumatized. Likewise, Tamanna and her mother who are bread ownners of entire family have to go through domestic violence of her uncle which makes these two women traumatized. In this sense, female characters in the novel have been exploited, tortured and controlled by the patriarchal norms and values. In Afghan society, patriarchal Islamic law applied by Islamic fundamentalism, as a means of maintaining patriarchal power, exploits and tortures the females; controls and subordinates them. It gives the women gender trauma. In this way, this research depicts that female body becomes the site of violence and masculine power exercise in patriarchal society that causes gender trauma of women.Item Narrativization of Gender Trauma in Nasrin's Sodh(Central Department of English, 2013) Lamichhane, BinodTaslima Nasrin’s novel Sodh projects the main character Jhummur’s traumatic torture which is caused by her husband’s extreme doubt and suspicious nature. She is pregnant. But her husband is not ready to believe that the infant she carried in her womb is his own. When his doubt reached the limit, he forcibly took her to a local clinic and got her aborted against her will. Actually she is innocent and flawless. She is loyal to her husband. Despite her innocence and fidelity, she is subjected to the traumatic torture brought forth by untimely abortion. She takes revenge on her husband by sleeping with a painter and convincing her husband that she is carrying his child in her womb. Just being a subordinate lady in tyranny of Islamic patriarchy Jhummur is traumatized. The rigid Islamic culture and oppressive web of patriarchy generated cultural trauma in which she is trapped. By using the notion of historic-cultural trauma, the researcher has analytically dwelt upon the issue of gendered trauma in this research.Item Narrativizing Psychological and Gender Trauma in Philip Roth’s The Humbling(Department of English, 2012) Ghimire, DamodarThe research is a study on Philip Roth’s The Humbling as a narrativization of characters’ psychological and gender trauma caused by the capitalist and patriarchal ideologies. It argues that the traumatic narrativization in the text does not only unburden the psychological pain, but also critiques on the cruelty of the capitalist and patriarchal ideologies. Simon Axler and Sybil Van Buren, the representative characters in the novel are repeatedly haunted by the unexpected traumatic events and involve in the violent actions. Buren gets traumatized by seeing her little daughter being raped unexpectedly by her stepfather. As a result, her traumatic psyche searches violent outlets. So, she kills her husband. Simon Axler, a wellknown stage actor unexpectedly loses his power of magical actions, memory and confidence to go on the stage. Due to his failure, he is psychologically traumatized. After that misfortune, he loses his acting company, his caring wife, his professional identity and becomes so much depressed. He is repeatedly driven by the suicidal urges and commits suicide. The stage actor’s suicide and Buren’s murder of her own husband replicate the possible violent consequences of the trauma caused by the capitalist and patriarchal system.Item Nexus of gender trauma, epistolary fictional writing and scriptotherapy: a study of Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter(2023) Tamang, SaritaAvailable with full TextItem Traumatic Experience in Toni Morrison’s Love(Faculty of English, 2012) Mahato, Sanjay KumarToni Morrison’s Love is a story of Bill Cosey, central figure of female characters, around whom the lives of female characters May, Christine, Heed, Junior, L, and Vida revolve. Due to deep impact of Cosey’s life in their lives, their psyche gets affected deeply and ultimately it results in psychological trauma, a psychic disorder that makes their present life wearisome. The present research explores gender trauma, trauma and memory, and narrativization of trauma in the fiction. The traumatic characters narrate their traumatic experience in order to reduce the burden of trauma in their life and adjust themselves in present situation. In the novel, every character has certain psychological problem because of their traumatic experience of the unexpected and unwanted events that have undergone in their life. Therefore, Morrison’s Love is a trauma novel.