Feminist Storytelling and Healing: Trauma, Voice, and Testimony in Postcolonial Literature
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Trauma, Postcolonial Literature, Toni Morrison, Bama, Githa HariharanAbstract
The paper is essentially an inquiry into historical literature which is not just about unearthing the untold histories but about digging at the silent histories which are submerged beneath people’s traumas and have got caught in our memory as a collective. I will also research such feminine narrative voices as Toni Morrison, Bama, and Githa Hariharan to understand how their voices strive to introduce such suppressed voices into the discourse. Their writings are not just a record of torment, but a survival strategy, an intergenerational recovery and strength. Based on the theory of trauma and feminist epistemology, the current argument is that narrative is a significant site of identity reconstruction, past historical reconciliation, and pain agency.
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