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Title Exploring Child Sexual Abuse: Socio-Cultural Factors and Traumatic Impact in Selected South Asian Texts

Author(s) Safdar Ali Danish

Abstract The present investigation delves into the significant themes of child abuse as mentioned in the selected South Asian contemporary texts, Sleeping on Jupiter (2015) and Girls Burn Brighter (2018), by Anuradha Roy and Shobha Rao. The central motive of this research is to shed light on the child abuse contributing factors, forms of abuse, emotional suffering and traumatic impact on the personalities of abused children. The existing framework originated from the “Contemporary Trauma Theory” (CSA) outlined by Jooste. Therefore, theoretical components are employed from “David Finkelhor’s Precondition Model”, which focuses on the socio-cultural factors adopted by perpetrators to motivate children to abuse. Further insight regarding forms of abuse has been extracted from “Child Abuse as an International Issue (1988)”, a collaborated work by David Finkelhor and Jill Korbin. This work further illustrates the categories of abuse: child sexual abuse, child emotional abuse, child physical abuse, child prostitution abuse and neglect. Therefore, the traumatic impact because of childhood abuse is explored as outlined in Cathy Caruth’s Trauma: Exploration in Memory (1995). For a more explicit approach, Catherine Belsey's textual analysis method has been applied. The study emphasises the awareness of child abuse to bring it into the limelight, and this concern is associated with the well-being of children, as it is still considered a taboo in society. Therefore, this analysis recommended child abuse can be investigated through intersectional analysis between child abuse and other societal issues. Moreover, educational strategies can also be incorporated fiction into education for awareness. Through translation studies broader discussion can be generated. From these viewpoints, consequently, it is still an ignored aspect by researchers, as well an expected research gap for future concern.

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Language English

Publication Date 2024-05-02

Subject English Literature

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