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| Paper Title: | The Haunting Gaze: An analysis of Mahim Bora’s ‘Toop’(The Bait) |
| Authors Name: | Sandhani Dutta |
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| Published Paper Id: | IJRTI2509042 |
| Published In: | Volume 10 Issue 9, September-2025 |
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| Abstract: | Mahim Bora’s short story ‘Toop’(The Bait’) explores the fragility of rural childhood by bringing in the theme of play through a haunting gaze of the lifeless eyes of a half-buried infant corpse, recalled by Haribol Koka. This haunting gaze echoes later in the story,in the unblinking eyes of a captured Sol fish by the boys , transforming this childhood moment of triumph and joy into an encounter with the dread. This paper attempts to situate ‘Toop’ (The Bait), within Assamese literature’s engagement with childhood, silence, and trauma, and showshow Mahim Bora subtly re-imagines childhood not as a space of idyll and innocence but also as one of interruption, trauma, horror, where memory and mortality intrude into everyday play. Drawing on Freud’s theorization of the uncanny, Cathy Caruth’s notion of trauma,and Avery Gordon’s concept of haunting, this paper seeks to explore the theme of ‘haunting gaze’ as a symbolic device that discloses the spectral undercurrents of Mahim Bora’s powerful storytelling as well as of childhood, memory and trauma. |
| Keywords: | keywords - trauma, memory, childhood, mortality |
| Cite Article: | "The Haunting Gaze: An analysis of Mahim Bora’s ‘Toop’(The Bait)", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.a338-a341, September-2025, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2509042.pdf |
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Page No: a338-a341 Country: Tezpur, Assam, India Research Area: Social Science and Humanities Publisher : IJ Publication Published Paper URL : https://www.ijrti.org/viewpaperforall?paper=IJRTI2509042 Published Paper PDF: https://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2509042 |
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