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Drishti: the Sight Vol.- IX, Issue - II, (November, 2020-April, 2021) (Enlisted in the UGC-Care list in Arts and Humanities section) A REFEREED (PEER-REVIEWED) BI-ANNUANNUANNUAL NANAAL TIONAL RESEARCHCHCH JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE/ASSTURE/ASSTURE/ASSAMESE LITERATURE/FTURE/FTURE/FOLKLOLKLOLKLORE /CUL/CULORE TURETURETURE Chief Editor (Hon.) DR. DIPAK JYOTI BARUAH Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Jagiroad College (University of Gauhati) Associate Editors: Dr. Manash Pratim Borah (Dept. of English, Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, Govt.of India) Dr. Nizara Hazarika (Dept. of English, Sonapur College, University of Gauhati) Dr. Bhubaneswar Deka ( Dept. of English, Pandu College, University of Gauhati) Members of Advisory Body Dr. Gayatree Battacharyya, Former Professor, Dept. of English, University of Gauhati Dr. Dayananda Pathak, Former Principle, Pragjyotish College, Guwahati Dr. Prabin Chandra Das, Former Head, Dept. of Folklore, University of Gauhati Dr Dwijen Sharma, Professor, Dept.of English, North Eastern Hill University (Tura Campus) Dr. Bibhash Choudhury, Professor, Dept. of English, Gauhati University Members of Editorial Body Dr. Soubhagya Ranjan Padhi, Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Madhya Pradesh Dr. Manash Pratim Goswami, Dept. of Media and Communication, Central University of Tamil Nadu Dr. Pranjal Sharma Bashistha, Dept. of Assamese, University of Gauhati Dr. Rabi Narayana Samantaray, Dept. of English, Aeronautics College, Berhampur University, Odisha Dr. Durga Prasad Dash, Dept. of English, Gunjam College, Berhampur University, Odisha Dr. Breez Mohan Hazarika, Dept. of English, D.C.B. College, Assam Dr. Jayanta Madhab Tamuli, Dept. of English, M.S.S. 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Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- IX, Issue - II, (November, 2020-April, 2021) # 2 Drishti: the Sight Vol.- IX, Issue - II, (November, 2020-April, 2021) CONTENTS l Editorial # 9 l Remapping Trauma in Mythic Narratives: A Study of Surpanakha’s Story # 11 Shruti Chakraborti, M.G. Prasuna l Representation And Narration of Trauma in Don Delillo's The Body Artist # 16 Abhijit Sarmah l Voices Doomed in the Abyss of Trauma: Discussing Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide # 21 Dr. Joseph Varghese, Ms. Vani Maria, Jose l The White Standard of Beauty and its Traumatic Impact: A Study of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye # 26 Chitra Pegu l Reading Home as a Space of Trauma in Trezza Azzopardi’s The Hiding Place # 31 Bonjyotshna Saikia l Trauma of the Displaced in Herta Muller’s The Passport and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone # 36 Dr. Chitra.V. S l Hamnet and Narrative Hygiene: Retelling a Life # 41 Anindita Kar l Medical Humanities and Contemporary Literary Practices # 46 Dr. Prasenjit Das l Trauma narrative as Spaces for Individual Empathy and Community Resistance :Thematic and Narrative Concerns in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings # 51 Sapna Kumari l "Now We Breathe A Different Air": Reading Post 9/11 Imaginary as a Site of Trauma in Ian Mcewan's Saturday # 56 Smitasri Joy Sarma l Tracing the Dystopian Trail of Collective Trauma in Vijay Tendulkar’s Play Ghashiram Kotwal # 61 Dr. Breez Mohan Hazarika l The Insane Women- A “trauma” Reading of Felanee # 66 Dr. Jayanta Madhab Tamuly l Exploring Trauma through Survivor’s Testimony in Cat’s Eye # 71 Sanjib Das Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- IX, Issue - II, (November, 2020-April, 2021) # 3 l Aesthetizing Trauma:The Politics of Narration in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Surfacing’ # 75 Barnashree Khasnobis l Negotiating the Construction of Alienated and Distorted Subjectivities through Traumatic Experiences in the memoirs of Salman Rushdie and Dom Moraes # 79 Suroshikha Debnath l The Dislocated Self: Trauma in Wendy Pearlman’s We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled # 84 Dr Shruti Das, Mirza Ibrahim Beg l Locating Homophobic Violence and Trauma in the Short Film Touch # 89 Silba R. Marak, Dr. Dwijen Sharma l Introspecting Trauma, Sexual Violence against Women and Alienation of ‘Self’ as Portrayed in Partition Literature with Special Reference to Pinjar # 95 Akhil Chandra Borah l Trauma and Survival in Jangamby Debendranath Acharya # 100 Prateeti Barman l Violence and the Floating Self: A Critical Study of A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition # 104 Sukriti Deswal l Political Trauma among Common People Reflected in Selected Stories of Temsula Ao # 108 Dr. Champak Kumar Bharali l Void, Alienation and Bereavement: Traces of Traumatic Experiences in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame # 113 Dr. Sunita Rani, Vandana Sharma l Namita Gokhale’s Selected Novels Studied in Light of Dr Brian Leslie Weiss’ Parapsychological Studies # 117 Dr Rati Oberoi l Recording the Refugee: Jatin Bala's Legacy of Persistent Subcontinental Marginality # 122 Mandakini Bhattacherya l Role of Logotherapy in Developing Resilience: A Study of Gabrielle Zevin’s novel The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry# 127 Suvitha Subramaniam, Dr. Dhanalakshmi.A l A Literary Study of Third World Feminism, Sexual Victimization and Social Injustice towards Bangladeshi Women in Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim # 131 Himani Sharma, Dr Bhavya l A Passage to Redemption in Anita Nair’s The Better Man # 136 Dr. Nisha Nambiar l Projecting ASD : A Study of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time # 140 Gaurab Sengupta l Death as a Passage to Permanence: A Study of Porphyria’s Lover and A Musical Instrument # 144 Tapti Roy l Transnationality and Intergenerational Transformation of Indian Middle-Class Family in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland # 149 Dr. Maitrayee Misra Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- IX, Issue - II, (November, 2020-April, 2021) # 4 l Capitalist Patriarchy and Position of Women: An Analysis of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara # 154 Dr. Saugata Kumar Nath l Indigenising the Detective Genre in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Feluda’ series: A Study # 159 Dr. Chandreie Mukherjee l Homes across the Water: Dislocation and Transcultural Kinship in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace # 164 Dr. Asis De, Anupam Roy l Decoding Lucifer: Challenging the Retro- Fittings in the History of Satan # 169 Anupa Rose Babu l Masculinity and Performativity in Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala # 174 Manohar M l Engaging the Body: A Study of Desire and Identity in Babyji by Abha Dawesar # 179 Sriya Das l Indigeneity in a Nationalist Context: Exploring Alternative Modernity in Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri’s Popular Science Writings # 184 Sutista Ghosh l Quo Vadis: A Study of K.V. Raghupathi’s The Images of a Growing Dying City # 189 Dr. P.V. Laxmiprasad l Women and the Domestic Space in Rashid Jahan’s Parde ke Peechey # 195 Kanika Lakra l The Empire is Resurfacing: Rapacious Neocolonial and Bounteous Primitive in Buchi Emecheta’s The Rape of Shavi # 200 Dr. Arun Singh l Serenity in Insanity: Exploring Love in Sajid Ali’s Laila Majnu # 206 Dr Shruti Rawal l A Critical Discourse on Aesthetics in Contemporary Indian Dalit Literature # 210 Limbad Girishkumar Nagjibhai, Dr. Prakash M. Joshi l Theatrical Space and Visibility of Children’s Concerns in Ramu Ramanathan’s Play The Boy Who Stopped Smiling # 216 Nehal Hardik Thakkar l Revisiting Masterpieces of Literature Through Indian Aesthetics: A Myth Of Devotion, a river sutra & NAVEEN PATNAIK # 221 Dr. Kalikinkar Pattanayak l “Can a Pulaya Speak of His Life?”: Autobiography as Ethnography in Kallen Pokkudan’s Kandalk kadukalk kidayile Ente Jeevitham # 226 Liju Jacob Kuriakose, Smrutisikta Mishra l Re-contextualization and Representation of Folk Art in Advertising # 231 Dr. Manash Pratim Goswami, Dr. Soubhagya Ranjan Padhi l Art Forms as Narrative of Resistance: A Glance at the Art Forms of Mavilan Tribe # 239 Dr. Lillykutty Abraham Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- IX, Issue - II, (November, 2020-April, 2021) # 5 l Literary Texts towards negotiating the Practical Problems of Life : A Model # 244 Dr Ravindra Pratap Singh l Nation and Nationalism: Feminization of the Nation and its Evolutionary Transcendence in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri # 248 Arijit Goswami l The Use of Food Imagery and Representation of Culture in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Part and A Man of the People # 253 Dr. Lakshminath Kagyung l From Marginality to Congruity: Revisiting Marginality through a Canonicity of Jain and Sikh Literature # 259 Dr. Varun Gulati l Love, Compassion and Relationship: Balancing the