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Wounds That Speak: Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery in Salman Rushdie's Knife

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  Dr BINNY MATHEW

  Keywords

trauma, psyche, resilience, recovery, memory etc.

  Abstract


This paper examines Salman Rushdie's 2024 memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder through the lens of trauma narratives, resilience, and psychological recovery. On August 12, 2022, Rushdie was stabbed multiple times in a public attack--a violent culmination of decades of persecution following the publication of The Satanic Verses. In Knife, Rushdie transforms his near-death experience into a literary meditation, reconstructing his personal and creative identity through language. This paper employs Cathy Caruth's trauma theory and Judith Herman's framework on recovery to analyze Knife as a literary testament to survival. Through a close reading of the memoir, it interrogates how traumatic memory, vulnerability, and resilience intersect in narratives of violence. Furthermore, the paper situates Knife within postcolonial literary discourse, linking Rushdie's experience to broader issues of censorship, violence, and freedom of expression.

  IJCRT's Publication Details

  Unique Identification Number - IJCRT2509038

  Paper ID - 293236

  Page Number(s) - a323-a326

  Pubished in - Volume 13 | Issue 9 | September 2025

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  Publisher Name - IJCRT | www.ijcrt.org | ISSN : 2320-2882

  E-ISSN Number - 2320-2882

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  Dr BINNY MATHEW,   "Wounds That Speak: Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery in Salman Rushdie's Knife", International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT), ISSN:2320-2882, Volume.13, Issue 9, pp.a323-a326, September 2025, Available at :http://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2509038.pdf

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