Author(s): Anshula Upadhyay

Abstract: The essay explores the intricacies of how Virginia Woolf rehabilitated the erstwhile masculine inter-war trauma and memory back to the maternal, the source of civilisational guilt and collective advertent amnesia. It unravels a concomitance and convoluted relation between the Maternal trace and Modernist trauma of anonymity. It elucidates the Modernist existential trauma while resuscitating the silenced voice of the maternal forces, both creative and destructive.

Keywords: Maternal, Trauma, memory, authorship, textuality, sexuality, gender, Modernism, War.

Article Info: Received: 11 Nov 2021; Received in revised form: 15 Dec 2021; Accepted: 21 Dec 2021; Available online: 31 Dec 2021

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.66.45