• Bhavya S
• Dr. M. John Suganya

The study aims to explore the psychological impact of war on Munaweera’s women in the novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors. This paper will be focusing on the aspect of trauma on female protagonists standing opposite sides of the civil war in Sri Lanka and their role as both terrorist and refugee. This novel captures the ethnic violence in the country and narrates the traumatic memories of families who stayed in Sri Lanka and as well as those left the country. In the novel, Nayomi Munaweera tries to depict how normal people’s life turns upside down due to warfare. She reinscribes the history of Sri Lankan civil war from multiple perspectives, without bias, stories of the Sinhalese, the Tamils, and the Burghers that make up the multi-cultural reality of the island. The peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Memory and Trauma are the two vital aspects of this novel where it focuses on regard to refugee and terrorist psyche. Trauma is an emotional response to the terrible incident and causes a heavy impact on the victim’s mental health. The traumatic thoughts profoundly alter the way of thought about themself and about other people. This novel witnesses the brutalities of war and made an attempt to come with trauma inflicted on the victim’s mind by violent ethnic conflict. This paper aims to analyse the concept of victimization of women by applying trauma theory.

Racial discrimination, war, trauma, cultural heritage, survival

"A Study on Trauma inflicted by War on Munaweera’s women with respect to Island of a Thousand Mirrors", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.152-158, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06030.pdf

"A Study on Trauma inflicted by War on Munaweera’s women with respect to Island of a Thousand Mirrors", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. pp152-158, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06030.pdf