Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”

The article deploys Jacques Derrida’s hauntological contextualising of spectres in tandem with Dominick LaCapra’s (2004) and E. Ann Kaplan’s (2005) contextualising of trauma to unearth the roles which women are made to play within the societies in Ruskin Bond's narratives. Utilising a hauntolog...

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Main Authors: Priyank Jain, Anita Harris Satkunananthan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24413/
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description The article deploys Jacques Derrida’s hauntological contextualising of spectres in tandem with Dominick LaCapra’s (2004) and E. Ann Kaplan’s (2005) contextualising of trauma to unearth the roles which women are made to play within the societies in Ruskin Bond's narratives. Utilising a hauntological treatment of trauma, two short stories by Bond, “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8,” will be analysed in this article. In particular, this article aims to interrogate the impact of personal trauma contained within the texts as experienced by the women spectres inhabiting both of the aforementioned short stories and their male interlocutors. An analysis of both texts from a hauntological perspective incorporates both spatial and temporal considerations, from the architecture of the enfolding spaces to the connection between past, present and future. The different environments determined the different forms taken by spectres within Ruskin’s texts take; therefore, their significance will be examined in this article. In so doing, the article will problematise the notion of revisiting and re-contextualise it from a hauntological perspective. The findings will unearth the ways in which the feminine spectres in these tales are equated with the spaces they inhabit, both in nature and in the ties to architecture.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:244132024-10-21T07:46:12Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24413/ Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8” Priyank Jain, Anita Harris Satkunananthan, The article deploys Jacques Derrida’s hauntological contextualising of spectres in tandem with Dominick LaCapra’s (2004) and E. Ann Kaplan’s (2005) contextualising of trauma to unearth the roles which women are made to play within the societies in Ruskin Bond's narratives. Utilising a hauntological treatment of trauma, two short stories by Bond, “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8,” will be analysed in this article. In particular, this article aims to interrogate the impact of personal trauma contained within the texts as experienced by the women spectres inhabiting both of the aforementioned short stories and their male interlocutors. An analysis of both texts from a hauntological perspective incorporates both spatial and temporal considerations, from the architecture of the enfolding spaces to the connection between past, present and future. The different environments determined the different forms taken by spectres within Ruskin’s texts take; therefore, their significance will be examined in this article. In so doing, the article will problematise the notion of revisiting and re-contextualise it from a hauntological perspective. The findings will unearth the ways in which the feminine spectres in these tales are equated with the spaces they inhabit, both in nature and in the ties to architecture. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24413/1/TE%206.pdf Priyank Jain, and Anita Harris Satkunananthan, (2024) Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 30 (2). pp. 78-90. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1720
spellingShingle Priyank Jain,
Anita Harris Satkunananthan,
Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
title Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
title_full Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
title_fullStr Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
title_full_unstemmed Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
title_short Hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
title_sort hauntology and spectres of personal trauma in ruskin bond’s “topaz” and “the woman on platform no. 8”
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24413/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24413/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24413/1/TE%206.pdf