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Item Child Sexual Abuse: Narrativization of Psychological Trauma in Virani’s bitter chocolate(Department of English, 2013) Dangi, Madhu SudanThe present research on Virani’s bitter chocolate attempts to explore the psychological trauma of child sexual abuse. This project particularly seeks to explore the interconnection between the act of child sexual abuse and its psychological traumatic consequences. For this purpose, it analyzes the child sexual abuse in India compiled in virani’s book. Virani’s bitter chocolate presents the condition of child sexual abuse rampant in Indian societies. Sex is a taboo topic in India but her direct approach to the subject gives a lot of insight into the issue and become a landmark in writing bold non- fiction in India. In the stories each and every characters is abused sexually in their childhood and the book shows how it ruins the lives of the abused children.Item Narrativization of Psychological Trauma in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man(Department of English, 2016) Thapa, BishnuThe research paper focuses on the personal trauma which is brought by September 11 terrorists’ attack. The text represents the psychic disorder and troubled life through the portrayal ofcharacters and their way of coping with the situation through the process of acting out and working through. In order to prove the research paper, the ideas of Dominick LaCapra, Kali Tal and Cathy Caruth are used as the theoretical tools. The significance of the study is to show how the particular incident affects the psychology of the characters and how they try to cope with the situation. Hence, the research concludes how the survivors act out to forget the traumatic situation through different creative works.Item Narrativizing Psychological Trauma in Atonement by Ian McEwan(Department of English, 2014) Burlakoti, HariThis thesis project explores the traumatic and tormented psychology of the major characters as dramatized in Ian McEwan's Atonement through the critical perspective of psychological trauma. The psychological and neurological disorder of the characters as represented in their behaviors is examined there by focusing on the multiple origins of trauma including sexual repression, jealousy, revenge, loss of parents and so on. The central narrative of Atonement highlights the guilt-ridden world of Briony, who is psychologically tortured throughout her life due to the crime of false accusation of Robbie as rapist of Lola which brings complete turmoil in the life of both Robbie and Cecilia ruining their aim in life. Her trauma is further intensified when she is completely rejected and dejected by Robbie and Cecilia without giving her chance of atonement for which she desperately endeavours. The devastation and destruction of France, England and Germany brought by the Second World War is drawn through the letters of Robbie to Cecilia in order to justify the impacts of war in the psyche of people. Amid adverse and hostile situation, the major characters - Briony, Robbie and Cecilia - attempt to normalize their traumatized and problematized life through writing for expressing their sufferings and confessing their crimes and thus sharing through writing is applied as the process of healing traumatic wounds. Moreover, their service to the nation - Robbie as the soldier in the Second World War, and other two as the nurse in London work as a soothing balm and means of working through their trauma.Item Partition Violence: A Cause of Psychological Trauma in Nahal's Azadi(Faculty of English, 2012) Shrestha, Hari NarayanThis thesis entitled “Partition Violence: A Psychological Cause of Trauma in Nahal’s Azadi” has been written on the novel Azadi, written by an Indian writer Chaman Nahal. In the novel, the core intention of the writer is to portray the heart rending violent scenery of partition violence of India in 1947, and spread the message that violence benefits no one. Further more, he wills to say how the violence breaks all the limitations of social and moral laws. Violence brings severe catastrophes for the civilians and can be one of the root causes of trauma, especially psychological trauma. This thesis seeks to examine the narrativization of trauma in Azadi. However, at the same time the writer fails to maintain the fair judgment regarding the causes behind the eruption of such heart rending partition violence. Azadi projects Muslims as responsible for the eruption of the partition violence in 1947. Chaman Nahal does so out of the cultural chauvinism on their part to build up the image of their communities as civilized entities as opposed to the other communities. This cultural prejudice mars the authenticity of the traumatic experience depicted in the novel. The description of the violence in Pakistani side by the main character Lala Kanshi Ram is a subjective one. It is increased so much that it boils the blood and raises hair of any Hindu. Azadi is an unauthentic presentation that the rendition of violence is influenced by his inclination of Indian nationalism. He vainly attempts to create a show-up of the objectivity and authenticity in the narrativization of the trauma of the Muslim by presenting Lala Kanshi Ram. He says that what ever happened to them in Pakistan is happening to the Muslims in India. He does not narrate what exactly he observes. This refers two things. The first is Hindus or Sikhs were not less violent than Muslims. And second, Nahal escapes details of trauma undergone by the Muslim refugees in India.Item Psychological Trauma in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India(Department of English, 2012) Thapa Magar, Eka RajThis research is concerned with the psychological trauma on the part of the major protagonist, Anjali Bose, the novel Miss New India. Anjali goes to Bangalore in search of new opportunity and sophisticated modern life. She faces a great deal of hardships and troubles in Bangalore.Some of the harmful factors traumatized her. These factors are the disordered urban life, patriarchal bias against women and unemployment. Anjali is too naïve to understand all these complications. So she is promoting.By adopting Kali Tal’s notion of gendered trauma, the researcher probes into the psychic trauma of Anjali Bose. In support of Kali Tal’s theory, Judith Herman’s idea is also usedtod well upon the problems faced by Anjali. Despite her ambitious quest for individual life filled with freedom and gender equality, her migration to Bangalore remains discouraging.The significance of this research lies in the fact that internal migration, patriarchy and growing urban complexities often pose threat to the psychic integrity and harmony of the female migrants in the third world.Item Working Through the Trauma in the John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars(Department of English, 2017) Gurung, Ek KumariThis thesis examines the traumatic experiences of the characters and the ways they respond to it in John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars. The study uses Dominic LaCapra’s concept of “working through trauma” and “acting out trauma” to analyze the text. In the novel, the characters who are the cancer victims cope with their trauma by sharing their pain with friends, family and reading the novels. This study argues that trauma can be lessened by giving an outlet to the sufferings through literary activities and other sharing mechanisms. [Key words: trauma, working through, acting out, psychological trauma]