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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 13 2021 | None
REDEEMING QUEER IDENTITY AND TRAUMA IN SHYAM SELVADURAI’S NOVELS
Mr. E.Lenin, Dr. X. Anita Arul
Pages: 2913-2916
Abstract
Queer Literature in recent years has been accused of harbouring obsession with trauma. Queer Trauma Literature is centred in the queerness as a life of mystery or tragic plots and plenty of despair. This showed the structures of the world that provided gloom and unhappiness but these structures need to be changed. In other words the function of Trauma wasn’t to traumatize but to critique. ShyamSelvadurai is born in Sri Lanka to a Tamil father and a Sinhalese mother. His parents belong to the warring ethnic majority and minority groups in Sri Lanka. His novels deal with the themes of queer identity, immigration issues, sexuality, ethnic conflicts and gender issues. This paper entitled “REDEEMING QUEER IDENTITY AND TRAUMA IN SHYAM SELVADURAI’S NOVELS” focuses on Selvadurai’s protagonists’ troublesome upbringing in a war – torn Sri Lanka. Their problems are confounded when they realize that they being gays in a conservative society, is at war with their innate sexual and ethnic identities, which in turn creates a sort of trauma and tension within the individuals. Selvadurai, by excessively dealing with queer identity, challenges the acceptance of bordered identity to transcend the borders of identity. Queer Trauma here is not used as a tension but as a redemption, an escape, and liberation.
Keywords
queer, bordered-identity, trauma, redemption, liberation, escape, sexuality.
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