Janneker Lawrence

Internalized Racism & Unconscious: The Psychoanalytic Reading of Trauma in The Bluest Eye
This paper aims to examine the psychological trauma and the internalized racism in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison through a psychological lens.
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Navigating Selfhood: The Quest for Self-Actualisation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’SThe Last Gift
The paper titled Navigating Selfhood: The Quest for Self-Actualisation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift journeys into the theme of selfhood and the complex journey toward self-actualisation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel The Last Gift.
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Fragments of the Mind: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Literary Narratives
Literature has long served as a mirror to the human psyche, revealing the intricate workings of memory, trauma, identity, and emotional conflict. This paper examines how literary narratives represent the fragmented nature of the human mind, particularly in relation to trauma and memory reconstruction.
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Talaq from the Womb: Identity and Trauma in “Heart Lamp”
This paper examines the idea that ‘a daughter is another person’s wealth’ is a sentiment that has always stalked women in lifeand death.
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Fractured Minds and Rewritten Selves: Mapping The Human Psyche in Life is What You Make it
Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity from Oneself as Another (1992) provides a framework to understand Ankita Sharma’s psychological journey in Preeti Shenoy’s Life is What You Make it. Ricoeur explains that identity is not fixed but is shaped through the narration of one’s life experiences.
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Cancer and Adolescent Identity: Reconstructing the Self in Brave Enough
Narratives of illness in young adult literature frequently explore the psychological and emotional challenges experienced by adolescents while facing serious illness. This text depicts how teenagers renegotiate their sense of identity when illness disrupts their lives, and examines the process of identity development in Brave Enough by Kati Gardner, through the experiences...
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Artificial Intelligence and Indian School Education: Opportunities, Risks and the Need for Democratic Governance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) affects many areas of life, including education. Around the world, schools and colleges have started to use AI in different ways. In India, the use of AI in school education is still at an early stage, but the government and policymakers are showing strong interest in its...
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Narrative of Defiance: Autobiographical Remembrance in the Selected Poems of Maya Angelou
This paper explores the autobiographical undercurrents in select poems by Maya Angelou namely, "Still I Rise," "Caged Bird," "Phenomenal Woman," "Woman Work," "Our Grandmothers," "Alone," "The Mothering Blackness," and "On the Pulse of Morning" as sites of contestation where suppression, violence, discrimination, and identity crises are confronted and transcended.
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Fragmented Childhood and the Psychology of Absence: Trauma, Narrative Memory, and the Urban Subaltern Mind in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
This paper examines the psychological landscape of urban marginality in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Linethrough the lens of trauma theory, narrative psychology, and cognitive literary studies.
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Navigating New Narrative Spaces: Georgina Kleege’s Sight Unseen
Autobiography projects life in a pure, lucid and simplistic manner. However, in her autobiography Sight Unseen (1999), Georgina Kleege contests this idea, urging readers to reassess the ultimate nature of life writing. Her autobiographical text on sightlessness becomes a fundamental location to contest conventional notions of awareness, individuality and the boundaries of...
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