Across the shadowy landscape of memory: a relational reading of liminal traumas in Anita Rau Badami’s Can you hear the nightbird call?

Llano Busta, Andrea

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Across the shadowy landscape of memory: a relational reading of liminal traumas in Anita Rau Badami’s Can you hear the nightbird call?

dc.contributor.author	Llano Busta, Andrea
dc.contributor.department	Universidad de Oviedo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana.	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-16T11:05:29Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-16T11:05:29Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	Liminal trauma narratives provide access to the formal representation and the affective dimension of trauma. Anita Rau Badami’s multigenerational and transnational novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2006) is a case in point, in which in-betweenness is not merely a source of affliction but may develop into a stepping stone to a belated understanding of past tragedies in twentieth-century India and Canada. Through a relational and dialogical approach encompassing Indra’s net, postmemory, rhizomatic theory, and multidirectional memory, liminality is addressed in the family and historical spheres, tracing vertical and horizontal connections between characters and episodes, which, it is argued, challenge event-based models of trauma studies, stress the importance of emotional alliances, and promote the establishment of communities of memory. Ultimately, chronologies and hierarchies are discarded in favour of network arrangements as the most suitable way to deal with interconnected traumas.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Llano Busta, A. (2025). “Across the shadowy landscape of memory”: a relational reading of liminal traumas in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?. International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 171–183. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.611381
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.611381
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/157453
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad.	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Affect	en
dc.subject	Canada	en
dc.subject	Indian diaspora	en
dc.subject	Liminality	en
dc.subject	Melancholic migrant	es
dc.subject	Multidirectional memory	en
dc.subject	Partition	en
dc.subject	Postmemory	en
dc.subject	Relationality	en
dc.subject	Trauma literature	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Across the shadowy landscape of memory: a relational reading of liminal traumas in Anita Rau Badami’s Can you hear the nightbird call?	en
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