Bapsi Sidhwa’s characterization of Lenny Sethi in her fourth novel, the 1991 historical fiction IceCandy-Man, is formulated by the heterogeneous impact of the 1947 partition of India on the psychopathology of children. This paper observes how the trope of trauma problematizes the embodiments of childhood, contradicting its axiomatic paradisiacal nature. Parallel to the chaos of communal massacre, mass migration, dysfunctional parenting and the marginality of women and children, Lenny’s traumatic experience surpasses a singular-episodic trauma, and is laden with a multiplicity of source factors, thereby generating “complex trauma” (van der Kolk et al., 2007, p. 202). The child narrator acquires symptoms of irregular curiosity, hyper-vigilance, somatic complaints, fear, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and transgresses specific social norms. Lenny is a choreographed child, a problem-child, taxonomized as the ‘adult-child’ in the paper. Now, the question is whether to see the ensuing malfunction symptoms as a diagnostic criterion or adaptative human resilience? Drawing from Anjali Gera Roy’s concept of “intangible violence” (Roy, 2020, p. 43) the paper examines textual openings where the stages of childhood and adulthood deconstruct itself, approximates, and overlaps inside each other; taking cues from a relatively less-documented narrative angle of the child victim of partition.

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巴西悉华《冰糖人》中“大人”的创伤与越轨研究

Bapsi Sidhwa 在她的第四部小说，1991 年的历史小说 IceCandy-Man 中对 Lenny Sethi 的描述是由 1947 年印度分裂对儿童心理病理学的异质影响构成的。本文观察了创伤的比喻如何将童年的具体化问题化，与其公理化的天堂本质相矛盾。与社区大屠杀、大规模移民、父母功能失调和妇女儿童边缘化的混乱并行，莱尼的创伤经历超越了单一事件的创伤，并且充满了多种源因素，从而产生了“复杂的创伤”（范德Kolk 等人，2007 年，第 202 页）。儿童叙述者出现不规律的好奇心、过度警觉、躯体抱怨、恐惧、PTSD（创伤后应激障碍）等症状，并违反特定的社会规范。莱尼是一个精心设计的孩子，一个问题儿童，在论文中被归类为“成人儿童”。现在，问题是是否将随后出现的故障症状视为诊断标准或适应性人类适应力？该论文借鉴了 Anjali Gera Roy 的“无形暴力”概念（Roy，2020 年，第 43 页），研究了童年和成年阶段自我解构、近似和相互重叠的文本开口；从相对较少记录的分裂儿童受害者的叙述角度获取线索。43）这篇论文考察了童年和成年阶段自我解构、近似和相互重叠的文本开口；从相对较少记录的分裂儿童受害者的叙述角度获取线索。43）这篇论文考察了童年和成年阶段自我解构、近似和相互重叠的文本开口；从相对较少记录的分裂儿童受害者的叙述角度获取线索。