Abstract:
The partition of 1947 was a significant socio-political event of
history that tremendously affected individuals’ life. Bapsi Sidhwa is a Parsi
writer from Pakistan, who was born in Karachi in 1938. She spent most of
her childhood days in Lahore and witnessed the violence of partition as a
nine-year child. She portrays the terror of the partition in her novel Ice
Candy Man and her first-hand experiences make it more vivid and authentic.
The novel also focuses on how partition related violence and traumatic
experiences can determine the course of one’s life. The present study intends
to show how a horrific political event like the Partition can influence the
individuals and how they have to live with the trauma caused by this event
through the portrayal of the characters of this novel in the light of trauma
theory.
Keywords: Partition, Violence, Victimization of Women, Violation of
Identity, Trauma.
