Author: Raj Sree, Department of English, All Saint’s College, Thiruvananthapuram

Abstract: »This paper attempts to theorize trauma, temporality, memory and place with reference to Partition Narratives from the perspective of trauma theory. More than a million individuals endured hitherto unheard-of horrors in the chaotic hours and days that followed the British flight, including disease, famine, rape, murder, and communal riots. However, the migrations and resettlements were not the end of the miseries of Partition; they are still happening today. Maria Tumarkin coined the word "traumascapes" to refer to places of trauma that recall memories of loss, suffering, and violence. In traumascapes, the memories of loss are repeatedly reenacted and time appears to be replayed. Traumascapes are eerie locations where the physical and the spiritual, the past and the present, the visible and the invisible, all converge in one shared area. These locations, which Foucault refers to as heterochronias, are where the past and present collide and where the recollection of the original trauma separates from the past.« (Source: The Academic)

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