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Item Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince as Scriptotherapeutic Inscription(2017) Laxmi, SharmaThis research paper investigates how Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince relates autobiographical elements with fictional ones and the significance of such narrative to deal with trauma. Saint-Exupery in this novella recounts his early days and his youthful days as a pilot but the story is not all about him. The narrative not only recounts what he experienced as a child and as an adult but also brings the fictional little prince into the center of this narrative. It is through the eyes of the little prince, that the narrator makes sense of the alien world and also his own. The writer had undergone childhood repressions and also traumatic experiences in the Second World War and his writing is examined as an attempt to come to the terms with these traumas. This paper draws primarily from the ideas of ‘Scriptotherapy’ from Suzette A. Henke and terminologies to discuss them from trauma theorists such as Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra as well as from life writings, particularly those that focus on the relation between autobiographical and fictional and the importance of performative aspect of writing. Paul de Man’s insight from “Autobiography as Defacement” supports the argument regarding the construction of fictional self. Finally, the paper takes into consideration the therapeutic effect of fictionalizing self redrawing from Henke’s suggestions.Item Spiritual Awakening in Manisha Koirala’s Healed(Department of English, 2022) Paudel, NirutaIn this research, the biography Healed by Manisha Koirala is observed using a working psychoanalytical approach. Biography is observed as an important factor in engaging the reader on a personal level with the experience of trauma. By surveying Manisha Koirala’s Healed co-written by Neelam Kumar’s use of imagery and language, this study will examine how Neelam employs literary methods that imitate the psychological processes regarding how trauma is communicated to the waking state from the unconscious. In order to examine the psychological metamorphosis of Manisha Koirala depicted through words, theories of Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth and Dori Laub that involves the unconscious and the means it used to form psychological structure capable of finding a place within the waking state, other conscious. The resulting testimony of the novel that arises as the result of these processes is also observed. This study concludes that Neelam’s use of these literary methods functions to obligate the reader to involve themselves in the process of trauma and its resolution. Abstract: trauma, awakening, literary devices, repetition, psychology, memoryItem Traumatic Experiences in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl(Department of English, 2009) Regmi, RanjanaAnne Frank's diary,The Diary of a Young Girlis one of the most celebrated diaries in the modern world. It narrates Anne's severe mental torture in a hideout in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, during the Second World War. Anne, who hardly was thirteen years when the family was forced to a hideout, spent two years hiding in an annex of two rooms and a kitchen with eight members during the mostgruesome days of the War. She penned down, some of her innermost feelings in relation to love, adolescence feelings, way and meaning of life in the hideout in the extraordinary situations of the war. Her portrayal provides a stark glimpse into her extraordinary ordeal gripped from childhood to adolescence. She captives the reader with an innocence that contrasts the reality of her situation, which outwardly looks calm and quiet, but is like a resisting volcano. The suffering of the young girl, Anne is a portrayal of trauma that speaks volume of the trauma of the Jews during the Second World War.