Tracing repercussions of trauma in Mian Raza Rabbani’s the smile snatchers
| dc.contributor.author | Samaia Amjad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-20T23:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-20T23:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research tends to study child trauma and its effects on childhood referring to Raza Rabbani’s novella The Smile Snatchers. It discusses that child trauma serves as an unerasable memory associated to traumatic experience and the way it remains a part of their unconsciousness permanently. This study tends to argue that child trauma cannot be expressed but can be identified in the behavioral patterns in childhood that may vary from other normal children. It would also incorporate the basic perception of childhood and how trauma ravages the blissful childhood period, leaving the victims in eternal abyss. The aim of this study is to highlight the aftermath of traumatic experiences on childhood and to highlight how children suffer and continue to suffer, both physically and mentally. The study aims to validate that how a single experience can lead to a permanently disrupted childhood and impose a similar outlook on life as well. The study would trace out the immediate and long-term effects of child trauma on child’s behavioral, emotional and psychological patterns. Using the post structural approach of trauma studies by Cathy Caruth, the researcher will explore the novella with the lens of trauma theory, and its effects on childhood and growing ages. The aspect of the Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth that, trauma tends to continuously repeat itself, would be focused along with the key features of Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History to support the argument throughout the study. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11271 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | UMT, Lahore | |
| dc.title | Tracing repercussions of trauma in Mian Raza Rabbani’s the smile snatchers | |
| dc.type | Thesis |