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 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...
This study examines a revisionist theatrical representation of Surpanakha in Surpanakha: A Search (2025), a solo performance by theatre artist Parshathy J Nath.
This paper examines character development in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, focusing on the moral and psychological growth of the central characters within the racially segregated society of Maycomb, Alabama. The study aims to analyse how individual transformation reflects broader themes of justice, prejudice, and ethical responsibility.
The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai is a Man Booker Prize winning novel which deals with trauma induced by various factors such as colonialism, racial and class discrimination, poverty, hatred, and violence. All the prominent characters in the novel undergo traumatic experiences which deeply scar and alter their lives.
