Traumatic Experience in Radha Paudel’s Jumla: A Nurse’s Story

Abstract

The present thesis entitled Traumatic Experience in Jumla: A Nurse’s Story examines Radha’s tackles with psychological and physical suffering and becomes an inspiration to the entire community. The author tries to valorize the significance of the human identity of those people who are marginalized and desires to give to voice to voiceless Jumli people. The protagonist, Radha is a victim survivor of civil war as well as poverty and gender. She sacrifices her personal desires and struggles on behalf of Jumli’s empowerment and self-identity. This paper excavates the sufferings that Radha undergo and the reasons of sufferings and the research focuses how she tries to heal her trauma through the process of working through. The story portrays the life of Radha from her childhood to old age. She struggles for social changes and challenges the existing system and notion of contemporary Nepalese society during Maoist insurgency. Despite all these challenges and difficulties she stands up and becomes an inspirational figure to the people of her country.