Shanantha, T and Dr Samundeeswari, M (2023) Challenges In Woman Empowerment: A Study On Contemporary Literature Through The Lens Of Cognition And Trauma. Challenges In Woman Empowerment: A Study On Contemporary Literature Through The Lens Of Cognition And Trauma, 40 (28). pp. 509-512. ISSN 2348-8425

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Abstract

This article focuses on challenges in empowering women in terms of cognition and
trauma impacts in Lahiri’s Whereabouts andAnuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter. Protagonists
of both the works are female and they represent the impacts of trauma. Lahiri in Whereabouts
introduces her unnamed protagonist with her profession of instructor which is not the ambition
of her life. Her connection to the ambience revolves with a sense of solitude throughout the
novel. This solitude as an impact of trauma is compared to the protagonist of Anuradha Roy.
Nomi is the protagonist in Sleeping on Jupiter. She travels back to India in search of a
childhood friend and grows nostalgic with the sense of violence and sexual abuse which is
traced to be the impacts of trauma. Trauma studies line the trauma impacts in literature and
society by analyzing its psychological, rhetorical, and cultural significance. Trauma studies
was first developed in the 1990s and relied on Freudian theory to develop a model of trauma.
This model of trauma indicates that suffering is unrepresentable. As per the new model of
Pluralistic Trauma Theory, the processes of memory remain central to the depiction of trauma’s
impact. Maintaining a concept of memory as a fixed process wherein all life experiences are
stored exactly and literally lends itself to the traditional trauma model since the traumatic
experience remains frozen in a timeless, haunting state.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Trauma, solitude, violence, memory, Cognition, Women Empowerment
Divisions: PSG College of Arts and Science > Department of English
Depositing User: Mr Team Mosys
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2024 07:37
Last Modified: 10 Jan 2024 07:37
URI: http://ir.psgcas.ac.in/id/eprint/2094

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