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Item 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.