Janneker Lawrence

The novel The Binding Vine by Shashi Deshpande is an intriguing work to study how the mind can overpower the body and its functions. The protagonist Urmi suffers from the trauma of the death of her infant daughter and she tries to cope with the situation in her own way.

This paper examines emotional alienation and loneliness in Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, exploring how personal, familial, and socio-historical factors converge to shape profound experiences of isolation.

This paper is about Maria’s transformation in The Sound of Music as a journey of her identity formation. It uses the ideas of Nicholas Mirzoeff in What is Visual Culture and Homi K. Bhabha in “Remembering Fanon” to show that identity is not fixed but develops through interaction and experience.

Literature emerging from regions affected by prolonged political conflict often foregrounds emotional and psychological experiences that conventional historical narratives tend to overlook. The River Never Sleeps by Easterine Kire explores the lives of ordinary individuals in Nagaland whose lives are shaped by conflict, cultural memory, and resilience.

Revathi’s The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story is a distinct memoir of the author's life. This narrative reveals the journey of Revathi as a transgender woman, who struggles to be a part of school, village, and metropolitan city life.

This research paper examines how Toni Morrison's final book, God Help the Child, explores the relationship between childhood trauma and materialism in the twenty-first century. The study highlights Bride's character and examines whether her material success compensates for her psychological healing or erases the pain that she experienced in childhood.

In the fast-evolving age of Digital Media, the originality of authorship is no longer given much prominence. Even misattribution in digital media platforms finds its way in promoting a social concern. And the receptors of these misattributed literary works show no great significance towards the credibility of the literary piece,...

Battle stories were once used as cultural centres for building bravery, sacrifice, and collective identity. Yet, contemporary warfare literature is slowly changing its focus from battlefield glory toward psychic destruction. This study examines war narratives as evolving literary environments that stress pain, memory fragmentation, and identity instability. The study, which...

Transgenerational trauma refers to the transmission of effects from traumatic experiences that arise due to war or systemic oppression. In the contemporary era, British-Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie's novel Broken Verses explores themes like rootlessness, family dynamics, political history, memory, and truth.

This paper presents a psychoanalytic reading of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, focusing on the psychological conflicts that shape the poem’s emotional intensity. Drawing on the theories of Sigmund Freud, the study explores how repression, unresolved childhood attachment, repetition compulsion, and death drive operate within the speaker’s relationship with her father.