Janneker Lawrence

Migration has been a recurring theme in transnational literature. But it has been mostly representing adults’ perspective, rather than that of children. This paper examines the experience of migration through a nine-year-old child in Reyna Grande’s memoir The Distance Between Us (2012).

Freedom is perceived by people of the state according to the governance, power and age. Freedom of speech from the past is modified to freedom of expression in comments of the present. Byung-Chul Han, a German philosopher, theologian andcultural theorist refers to this transformation of expression of thoughts in the digital era in Psychopolitics. According to that, contemporary power operates less through...

In this paper, the concept of trauma and the human mind is discussed based on The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi, translated by V. Geetha, through a theoretical framework of Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth.

This paper explores nostalgia and psychological alienation in Benyamin’s Goat Days by utilising Jerome Bruner’s Narrative psychology.

This research paper analyses Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” as a critical exploration of faith, hypocrisy, and human nature within Puritan society.

This paper explores the complex interplay of memory, trauma, and diasporic identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

This paper proposes a psycholinguistic model for the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the formation of narrative identity in second language (L2) discourse.

The paper aims to examine Amma Ariyan (1986), directed by John Abraham, as a powerful exploration of memory and politicalconsciousness. 

The 1947 Partition of India generated not only territorial division, but also enduring psychic dislocation. This paper examines the interrelationship between trauma, memory, and narrative reconstruction in Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra, arguing that the text reconfigures the archive of Partition through material objects and lived testimony. Rather than privileging...

Literature is a privileged space where writers, through various works, articulate and integrate the ruptured minds of humans. Rebecca Ross, a young adult fantasy writer, uses this literary space to help people heal from fragmented lives. This paper explores how Ross represents the psychological rift of the characters in her...