Psychological Trauma in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India
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This 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.
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Psychological trauma, Female migrants