• Bijetri Datta Majumder

Cultural trauma occurs when the members of a collectivity feel that they have been subjected to a dreadful event which has marked their group consciousness permanently and have changed their future identity forever and in irreversible ways. But every social tragedy affecting a community is not transformed in to a cultural trauma. A social tragedy is transformed in to a cultural trauma only through the representation and reconstruction of the collective trauma in cultural texts such as films, drama, music, literature etc. The emotions surrounding the traumatic experience is diffused in to the wider society by the carrier group through these cultural texts. The audience experiences the emotions associated with the event by proxy. The Naxalite movement that shook West Bengal in the 1970s is such an event which have left an ineradicable mark on the collective consciousness of the Indians especially the Bengali community. The Naxalite movement have been represented in countless novels, short stories, films etc. This paper attempts to study the representation of the emotions generated by the Naxalite movement and the violence associated with it in the novel The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Cultural Trauma; Memory; Naxalite Movement; The Lowland; Trauma.

"Lowland of Trauma, Marshland of Memory: A Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.d817-d820, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106523.pdf

"Lowland of Trauma, Marshland of Memory: A Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppd817-d820, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106523.pdf