• MINU RAJ

Myth and Memory forms an indispensable part of our life. The collected or the preserved memories that get handed over to one generation after another has their own relevance in every period. As Paul Connerton argues our body is a "carrier of memories" and these memories shape us in one or other way. It is unable to separate a human being from his societal surrounding, therefore we can say our mind cannot escape from the mythical stories and from the hold of memories. Human beings everyday survival somewhere has nexus with the memory. There is a great role of the past in the present. In the processes of memory, there occurs psychological transformation within an individual. Through this paper, I will focus upon how a memory (Cultural and Collective) and myths aids in moulding an individual's psyche. Memory serves many purposes. In the book Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, the trio writers Mieke Bal, Jonathan and Leo Spitzer portrays how cultural memory ties past to the present. Through the act of memorization, history lives in the present. It aids in documenting the past. Through recalling, re-emergence of the bygone things happen and occupies a space in the present. "Neither remnant, document, nor relic of the past, nor floating in a present cut off from the past, cultural memory, for better or worse, binds the past to the present and future." writes Mieke Bal. They also deal in their essays the need for memory while encountering difficulties in the present.

Myth, Cultural and collective Memory, subjugation, resilience

"From Subjugation to Resilience: The Role of Myth and Memory in K R Meera’s Hangwoman", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.86-92, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06021.pdf

"From Subjugation to Resilience: The Role of Myth and Memory in K R Meera’s Hangwoman", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. pp86-92, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06021.pdf