Trauma Leaning Towards Insanity in Select Partition Literature

Abstract

Trauma has been a lasting aspect of the survivors of the partition era who had to undergo numerous problems and horrendous moments during that black phase of human history. This went in continuation with the trauma theories that became a popular realm of studies in literature. A person traumatized as a result of facing a holocaust or a gory incident that shocks his existence till his psychological impulses are stretched to their utmost limit, faces a transformation that is tilting towards insanity. Literature is one of the mediums to express the trauma faced by the people who witnessed the biggest exodus in human history. How literature written during that phase reflected the insanity of the people who were traumatized by the horrors of frenzied mob bent upon decimating the people from the other religion, forms the crux of this paper. The effort would be to trace the depth of that trauma and the resultant shades of insanity in the demeanor and persona of the characters.