HOPE, TENDERNESS AND EMPATHY: ECOLOGICAL CULTURAL TRAUMA IN BRANDON HOBSON'S THE REMOVED

V. Harshavarthini; S. Muthukumaravel

doi:10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i1.2024.2687

Authors

V. Harshavarthini Doctoral Research Scholar, Department of English Nallamuthu Gounder Mahalingam College Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, India
Dr. S. Muthukumaravel Associate Professor and Head, Department of English Nallamuthu Gounder Mahalingam College Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i1.2024.2687

Keywords:

Cherokee Natives, Ecological Trauma, Cultural Identity, Environmental Crisis, Cultural Trauma, Historical Trauma

Abstract [English]

The environmental crisis has a major impact on the lifestyle well-being, behavioural changes, and health issues of indigenous people. The emotional imbalances such as low self-esteem and prolonged grief of the individuals from their life experiences are related to worldliness. This research paper focuses on the sensitive turmoil of indigenous people and their ethical standards of living with cultural identity and individuality in a prominent state. Constructive memories pave the way for traumatic disorders of heterogeneous perceptions in various aspects that have a connection with ecological cultural mayhem. The intercultural, intergenerational trauma with the diversity of changes in the ecosystem accumulates in every crisis. Hope, Empathy, Tenderness, and Fulfilment are deep and irreplaceable for all the creatures in this world. In the novel, The Removed, Brandon Hobson (2021) uses ecological substances as an emotional support system when the complexities of personal behavioural conspiracies happen in the characters' lives. The wide range of critical views observe the influences of emotional, ecological, cultural, historical, and spiritual approaches are related predominantly which demonstrates the necessity of the sociological aspects among the complex characters. The context accesses and facilitates the indigenous environmental and cultural portrayal in the respective significant novel.

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