Volume VI Special Issue III March 2026

Name of Author : Raka Joshi

Title of the paper : Trauma, Silence, and Marginal Lives in Mamang Dais Stupid Cupid

Abstract: This paper analyses Mamang Dais Stupid Cupid as a narrative of trauma and marginalisation set within the socio political and cultural contexts of the Northeast India region, which has been historically and politically marginalised within the Indian nation state. Incorporating Cathy Caruths trauma theory, the analysis views trauma as an unclaimed experience and as a result of silence and loss, which reemerges through absent memories and echoes of words. The paper argues that violence, in Dais understanding, extends beyond physical insurgency to include the symbolic, the psychic, and the structural. In doing so, the novel challenges overarching national discourses and reaffirms narration as a radical act where voicing the untold becomes a form of resistance against erasure.

Keywords : Trauma Theory, Cathy Caruth, Northeast Indian Literature, unclaimed experience, Marginalisation.

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Page Number : 126-131