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This volume addresses cultural and literary narratives of trauma in South Asian literature. Presenting a novel cross-cultural perspective on trauma theory, the essays within this volume study the divergent cultural responses to trauma and violence in various parts of South Asia, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Afghanistan, which have received little attention in literary writings on trauma in their specific circumstances. Through comprehensive sociocultural understanding of the region, this book creates an approachable space where trauma engages with themes like racial identity, ethnicity, nationality, religious dogma, and cultural environment. With case studies from Kashmir, the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, and armed conflict in Nepal and Afghanistan, the volume will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers of literature, history, politics, conflict studies, and South Asian studies.

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Goutam Karmakar, Ph.D. (English), is an NRF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is also Assistant Professor of English at Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. He is the lead editor of Routledge book series on South Asian literature. His forthcoming and recently published edited volumes are Nation and Narration: Hindi Cinema and the Making and Remaking of National Consciousness (forthcoming); The Poetry of Jibanananda Das: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Narratives (forthcoming); The City Speaks: Urban Spaces in Indian Literature (2022); and Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism (Routledge, 2021). His areas of interest are Women and Gender Studies, South Asian Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Ecological Studies. He has been published in journals including Visual Anthropology, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Intersections, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Comparative Literature: East & West, MELUS, South Asian Review, IUP Journal of English Studies, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Interdisciplinary Literary Review, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, National Identities, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, and Asiatic, among others. ORCID: Goutam Karmakar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-9486 Zeenat Khan, Ph.D. (English), is Sr. Assistant Professor at Post-Graduate Department of English and Research Centre, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh, India. She is also an IUC-Associate with the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She was a Summer Institute Fellow 2021 with Holocaust Educational Foundation Northwestern University, Illinois USA. She is a member of the Board of Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, and is also on the editorial panel of many international journals. Apart from publishing and presenting several research papers, she also has published three books, titled An Exordium (2011), Culture and Identity: Illustrations from the Select Works of M G Vassanji (2019), and Simmering Silences and Beneath: An Anthology of Gender Issues in India (2021). Her areas of research interest are postcolonial literature, gender studies, trauma literature, and environmental humanities. ORCID: Zeenat Khan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4347-9790

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