Trauma

Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

Jay Rajiva
Bloomsbury Academic
2017

Exposure to Armed Conflict and Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among Young Adults in Kashmir, India

Author(s): 
Rayees Mohammad Bhat, B. Rangaiah
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, Volume 24, 2015 - Issue 7, Taylor and Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10926771.2015.1062449

In this study, the relationship between armed conflict and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms was explored in a sample of young adults from Northern Kashmir in India. The sample included 797 college students. Exposure to conflict was assessed by the Exposure to Kashmir Conflict Checklist, made up of 16 different types of conflict-related events. PTSD symptoms were assessed through the PCL–C, a 17-item self-rating questionnaire typically used as a screening instrument. Nearly half of the respondents (49.81%) were found to be in the diagnosable range for PTSD.

Representing subjugation: or, the figure of the woman in partition history

Author(s): 
Rashné Limki
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504630.2020.1814717

This paper interrogates the reparative possibilities of representing subjugated voices in historical narratives. It examines, first, the onto-epistemic conditions under which this representation becomes possible. Further, it demonstrates that the possibility of representation is contingent upon the reproduction of the subjugated subject as a signifier of onto-epistemic difference. This form of representation fails to repair the harm underlying subjugation.

Persisting Partition: Affect, Memory and Trauma in Women's Narratives of Pakistan

Humaira Saeed
Bloomsbury Academic
2022

The silence of partition: borders, trauma, and partition history

Author(s): 
Jennifer Yusin
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330903361141

In contrast to the story of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan as an epiphenomenal event of independence, this article suggests that the division of British India signaled a unique rupture in which the creation of borders became the defining traumatic event of that history.

Ramchand Pakistani, Khamosh Pani and the traumatic evocation of Partition

Author(s): 
Humaira Saeed
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330903361166

This article will address the themes of partition, gender and trauma within two independent films from Pakistan, Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani (2003) and Mehreen Jabbar's Ramchand Pakistani (2008). The article will consider how the events of 1947 – partition of India and creation of Pakistan – recur within the films as disruptive trauma. The article will consider what an engagement with the characteristics of trauma such as involuntary recall and disruption can bring to my readings of the films.

Trauma : Voices on Partition of India

Raju Jayasing Patole
Laxmi Publication
2016

The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science

Shaili Jain
Harper
2019

Historic Trauma and the Politics of the Present in India

Author(s): 
Pradip Datta
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698010500267942

Abstract: India has had a very different history of violence and conflict from South Africa's, yet each democracy has had to face questions of how to deal with memories of past suffering, which bear directly on the quality of political life in the present. In India, the dream of national independence in 1947 rapidly changed into a nightmare of religious and ethnic violence. Britain's empire in the sub-continent was divided into two countries, Muslim-based Pakistan and constitutionally secular India, amid horrific massacres of Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs.

Partition: The Trauma of Partitioned Lives... in Films and Fiction

Farzana S. Ali
Mohammad Sabir
Dattsons Publishers
2012

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