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Feminist Trauma Without Recovery: Why Healing Narratives Fail in Indian Women’s Writing

Author(s) Dr. Devashish Kumar
Country India
Abstract This presentation looks into the category of Indian women’s writing using the prism of feminist trauma ethics, particularly focusing on how feminist stories have chosen not to have ‘healing arcs’ and defy the imperative of recovering, reconciling, and/or redeeming. Against the hermeneutics of trauma that reads it merely as an issue that must and can be addressed, contained, and empowered away, this presentation proposes an anti-redemptive feminist approach that declares the presence of unresolved trauma as ethical truth rather than failure of narrative. Based on trauma studies, feminist approaches in narrative ethics, and feminist realism, this presentation will show how ‘silences, fragments, and narrational pathologies’ are deployed in feminist texts for the purpose of recording the presence of trauma. Indian feminist texts often explore trauma not as an event that happens and passes but as an enduring structure that transforms subjects, relationality, and ethics.

The article goes on to say: “Healing discourses often, instead, repeat patriarchal comfort through women’s struggles refigured as inspiring journeys towards growth.” Anti-recovery discourses, on the contrary, invoke “politic necessity of discomfort,” recommending “duration, refusal, and survival over reconciliation.” As a way of exploring “trauma without recovery” through a narrative mode and with a distinctly feminist move, this study sets out to stretch existing discourse on Indian feminist literature away from models of empowerment towards affirming that “feminist politics of opposition may pursue through pain, through lack of clarity, through uncompletion.”
Keywords Feminist trauma, Narrative refusal, Anti-recovery feminism, Feminist realism, silence, endurance, Indian women’s writing
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-01-23
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2026.v07i01.3058
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbk6x4
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