BORDER CROSSINGS: TRAUMA AND NARRATIVE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LITERATURE

Author

Ellen Kriz, John Carroll UniversityFollow

Date of Award

Spring 2014

First Advisor

Dr. John McBratney

Abstract

This essay explores how Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines (1988) and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997) have begun the process of “coming to terms” with the ramifying traumas of the 1947 Partition.

Recommended Citation

Kriz, Ellen, "BORDER CROSSINGS: TRAUMA AND NARRATIVE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LITERATURE" (2014). Senior Honors Projects. 50.
https://collected.jcu.edu/honorspapers/50