Psychic Trauma of a Bereaved Mother: A study of Shahnaz Bashir’s The Half Mother

Abstract

Abstract

History witnesses that the ambivalence have always affected an individual, both physically and mentally. Kashmir’s suffered, strived and struggled but there doesn’t seem to be any end to their miseries. The ongoing conflict had made their living even worse than hell. As physical injuries are visible to everyone mental psyche often go unacknowledged. Shahnaz Bashir has made a good attempt to address the psychological condition of the people of valley, based on his own experience and memories. Bashir has depicted a heartrending story of bereaved mother, Haleema. Haleema lost her only son in the ongoing conflict and despite the trauma and agony of being a mother; she made every effort to search out her lost son, till her last breath. The article will put insight in to the sensitive human nature of novel and the mental agony through which the protagonist went through.