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This study attempts to examine and explore the subaltern voice and experiences that have to be scrutinised through the close reading of Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone. It is a collection of ten short stories based on personal and collective historical accounts of conflict, violence, and oppression imposed on the native people by the dominant groups. Foregrounding the text into the frame of neo-historical approach and memory study, the narratives in this collection tend to explore the unforgettable, painful, and superimposed experiences that remain silent and unrecognised in the mainstream narratives. By revisiting the historical past interwoven with memory and trauma, Ao attempts to delineate the narratives which act as a counter history to dominant historiography and give voices to the unheard. This study also takes into consideration how the characters representing the voices of ordinary people, are affected by their personal, historical, and collective self and identity marked with the atrocities and onslaught of the conflicted war zone and bear the memory of scars and blemish in their psyche.
Gobinda Rajbanshi, Deepak Kumar Singh. “Reconstructing the Past: A Study of History, Memory, and Trauma in Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 4, August 2026, pp. 916-928. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n4.56.
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