Volume III Special Issue III March 2023

Name of Author : Priya

Title of the paper : Exploration of Terrorism and Trauma in the Light of Select Indian English Novels

Abstract: A terrorist attack not only results in physical injuries, but also causes psychological trauma which can alter the way of living of an individual or a community altogether. Most of the time, traumatic experiences are generalized, but reactions to terror have revealed a complexity that defies facile decoding. As Nivedita Majumdar describes, literature by personalizing the political and politicizing the personal, illuminates terrorism in ways without which a grasp of it remains incomplete. Terrorism as a subject has been limited to media, politics, popular culture, and nonfiction. Despite having space for reflective discourse, fiction on this subject hasnt been explored comprehensively by researchers. The present paper aims to explore the representation of terrorism, its different dimensions, strategies, execution, and consequences in the light of Just Another Jihadi Jane 2016 by Tabish Khair, The Association of Small Bombs 2016 by Karan Mahajan, and The Collaborator 2011 by Mirza Waheed. The traumatic conditions would be studied by tracing the portrayal of violent actions and extremist ideologies experienced by characters in the novels. It is important to unravel the multiple facets of terrorism and trauma discussed in the novels by establishing a link between reality and fiction.

Keywords : Ideology, Literature, Trauma, Terrorism, Violence

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Page Number : 188-191