Re-Locating Violence and Trauma in “The Journey”

Abstract

Literature provides a legitimate and appropriate means of analyzing conflict and trauma. The literature from the Northeastern region of India addresses some of the region's contemporary psychological and social issues. The socio-political landscape of the Northeast has seen enormous shifts in the last few decades. Traumatic events throughout its past have influenced the literature of the various regions. Violence motivated explicitly by hatred and strife between ethnic groups is referred to as ethnic violence. Political violence is frequently linked to it. The paper attempts to examine the issue of ethnic violence and, hence, the traumatic consequence it created on the psyche of the people in Indira Goswami’s short story “The Journey”.