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Trauma, Memory, and Silence: Examining PTSD in the Women Characters of Country of Goodbyes by Mridula Garg

Author(s) Vickey Prasad, Anoop Kumar Tiwari
Country India
Abstract This study critically discusses the memory and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) experienced by the four women characters in the novel Country of Good-byes (2003) by Mridula Garg, who got the Shahitya Akademi Award in 2013, the highest national literary award in India. She is widely acclaimed as a bilingual author, writing in Hindi and English on the socio-political issues of women in India. The study examines the various dimensions of trauma and its causes faced by the women characters, Smita Marianne, Narmada, and Aseema, who are trapped in the vicious vagaries of their lives. Through the prism of traumatic theory, the study investigates the psychological underpinnings encompassing their emotional, behavioral, physical, and familial perspectives. Moreover, by implementing the qualitative method, this analysis deals with the other paradigms of traumatized memory predominantly in those women characters who, in the novel, toil hard to connect across a chasm of loneliness, disappointment, and miserable dysfunctional relationships. Furthermore, it elucidates and, at the same time, exemplifies a plethora of post-traumatic disorder symptoms associated with mental health, cognition, and dissociative disorders. The study addresses and resolves how those women characters (re)construct their true identities after revisiting their past traumatic events. The study shows the radical approach of the author, who, by situating those women characters in tumultuous social milieus, tries to advocate the fact that despite undergoing many traumatic tribulations in their lives, they venture to break the social stereotypes associated with the category ‘women’.
Keywords Memory, PTSD, Trauma, Gender, Narrative
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-01
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.73223
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