A Study on Post effect of Trauma in the Novel 26/11 Unforgiven by Manish Jaitly

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Sabitha S., Dr. Sukanya Saha

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Terrorism and trauma are inseparable twins. Terrorism shatters mankind and leaves them with irreparable trauma for the rest of their lives. Trauma acts as an important tool  to be analyzed in  this paper. This paper delineates about collective trauma and its symptoms like depression, guilt and revenge present in the select novel and it also attempts to unveil the act of revenge as the effect of posttraumatic experience in the novel. The novel has the theme as revenge. Kai T Erikson  , American Sociologist ‘s typology has been adopted to analyze the novel taken for the study is  26/11 Unforgiven by Manish Jaitly  which is based on real terrorist attack in Mumbai  (2008) . It is an unsympathetic series of attack which was executed by ten terrorist of Lashkar-e-Taiba at six different places at Mumbai and it lasted for four days.  In the attack 174 victims were killed and 300 were injured. Traumatic experiences of affected victims are always indescribable. Authors have made attempt to describe the traumatic event through innumerable works. This paper focus on the collective trauma, trauma symptoms presented in the novels. The paper also presents how the characters torment out of trauma and how trauma motivates the victim to march toward revenge.

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