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This study aims to analyze the traumatic effects of colonialism and slavery on the characters of Caryl Phillips’s novels and to depict their struggle to overcome their sense of living in-between two cultures. A postcolonial theoretical perspective was used to investigate the cultural and psychological trauma of the characters in Phillips’s The Final Passage and Crossing the River after slavery, and the effect of these traumas on the formation of their own cultural identity. Throughout these novels, the reason for trauma is the problems the characters experience regarding their sense of belonging. The main element of trauma is separation and displacement that lead to alienation from society and their own culture. Therefore, diasporic identity and lack of identity are the causes of trauma. Nash, Martha and Travis fail to insist on adopting a new homeland and a new identity. Characters who are aware that they should forget as long as they try to belong cannot escape from understanding how to remember when they understand that they should forget. The aim of this study, in which slavery and colonialism issues are dealt with in the light of trauma theory, is to show the identity crisis and belonging problems of diasporic lives to the reader.
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- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth, Griffiths, Tiffin, Helen (1989). The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Clingman, Stephen (2009). ‘’Other Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips’’, Conversations with Caryl Phillips, Edt. Renee T. Schatteman, University Press of Mississippi. Craps, Stef, Buelens, Gerd (2008). “Introduction: Postcolonial Trauma Novels.” Studies in the Novel, S. 40:1&2, s. 1-12. Davison, Carol Margaret (2009). ‘’CrissCrossing the River: An Interview with Caryl Phillips’’, Conversations with Caryl Phillips, Edt. Renee T. Schatteman, University Press of Mississippi. Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1959). ‘’Little Gidding’’, Four Quartets, London: Faber and Faber. Freud, Sigmund (2013). ‘’Psikanalize Giriş’’, çev. K. Şipal, Nevrozlar, Ankara: Say Yayıncılık. Goddard, Horace I. (2001). “Travel discourse in Caryl Phillips´s The Final Passage and A State of Independence.” Kola 21.1, s.149-162. Herman, Judith 82015). Travma ve İyileşme: Şiddetin Sonuçları, Ev İçi İstismardan Siyasi Teröre, çev. Tamer Tosun, İstanbul: Literatür Yayınları. Jaggi, Maya (1994). ‘’Crossing The River: Caryl Phillips talks to Maya Jaggi’’, Wasafiri, C.10.20, s.25-29. King, Bruce (2004). The Internationalization of English Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ledent, Bénédicte (2002). Caryl Phillips, New York: Manchester University Press. Nyitsotemve, Nah Charles (2009). “Signposts of Alterity.” The Indian Review of World Literature in English, C.5.2, s.1-7. Okazaki, Hank (1991). ‘’On Dislocation and Connectedness in Caryl Phillips’s Writing’’, Journal of West Indian Literature, C. 6.2, s.88-96. Phillips, Caryl (1985). The Final Passage, London: Faber&Faber. Phillips, Caryl (1993). Crossing the River, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Phillips, Caryl (1999). “A Dream Deferred: Fifty Years of Caribbean Migration to Britain”, Kunapipi, C.21.2, s.106-108. Phillips, Caryl (2001). A New World Order, London: Secker and Warburg Random House. Visser, Irene (2011). “Trauma Theory and Postcolonial Literary Studies.”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, C.47.3, s.46-52. Yelin, Louise (2009). ‘’An Interview with Cary Phillips’’, Conversations with Caryl Phillips, Edt. Renee T. Schatteman, University Press of Mississippi, s.240-252.
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Bu çalışma, sömürgeciliğin ve köleliğin Cary Phillips’in romanlarındaki karakterler üzerinde yarattığı travmatik sonuçları irdelemek ve bu karakterlerin iki kültür arasındaki sıkışmışlık duygusunun üstesinden gelmek için ne tür bir çaba sarf ettiklerini analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Phillips'in The Final Passage ve Crossing the River romanlarındaki karakterlerin kölelikten sonra yaşadığı kültürel ve psikolojik travmayı araştırmak için postkolonyal bir teorik bakış açısı kullanılmış ve bu travmaların karakterlerin kendi kültürel kimliklerinin oluşumu üzerindeki etkisini analiz edilmiştir. Bu romanlar boyunca travma sebebi, karakterlerin aidiyet duygusu ile ilgili yaşadıkları problemlerdir. Travmanın temel unsuru, toplumdan ve kendi kültürlerinden yabancılaşmaya yol açan ayrılık ve mekânsızlaşmadır. Dolayısıyla, diasporik kimlik ve aidiyetsizlik travmanın nedenidir. Yeni bir vatanı ve yeni bir kimliği benimsemede ısrar eden Nash, Martha ve Travis bunda başarısız olurlar. Ait olmaya çalıştıkları sürece unutmaları gerektiğinin farkında olan karakterler unutmaları gerektiğini anladıklarında ise hatırlamaktan kaçınamazlar. Kölelik ve sömürgecilik konularının, travma teorisi ışığında ele alındığı bu çalışmada amaç, diasporik yaşamların kimlik bunalımını ve aidiyetsizlik problemlerini okuyucuya göstermektir.
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- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth, Griffiths, Tiffin, Helen (1989). The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Clingman, Stephen (2009). ‘’Other Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips’’, Conversations with Caryl Phillips, Edt. Renee T. Schatteman, University Press of Mississippi. Craps, Stef, Buelens, Gerd (2008). “Introduction: Postcolonial Trauma Novels.” Studies in the Novel, S. 40:1&2, s. 1-12. Davison, Carol Margaret (2009). ‘’CrissCrossing the River: An Interview with Caryl Phillips’’, Conversations with Caryl Phillips, Edt. Renee T. Schatteman, University Press of Mississippi. Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1959). ‘’Little Gidding’’, Four Quartets, London: Faber and Faber. Freud, Sigmund (2013). ‘’Psikanalize Giriş’’, çev. K. Şipal, Nevrozlar, Ankara: Say Yayıncılık. Goddard, Horace I. (2001). “Travel discourse in Caryl Phillips´s The Final Passage and A State of Independence.” Kola 21.1, s.149-162. Herman, Judith 82015). Travma ve İyileşme: Şiddetin Sonuçları, Ev İçi İstismardan Siyasi Teröre, çev. Tamer Tosun, İstanbul: Literatür Yayınları. Jaggi, Maya (1994). ‘’Crossing The River: Caryl Phillips talks to Maya Jaggi’’, Wasafiri, C.10.20, s.25-29. King, Bruce (2004). The Internationalization of English Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ledent, Bénédicte (2002). Caryl Phillips, New York: Manchester University Press. Nyitsotemve, Nah Charles (2009). “Signposts of Alterity.” The Indian Review of World Literature in English, C.5.2, s.1-7. Okazaki, Hank (1991). ‘’On Dislocation and Connectedness in Caryl Phillips’s Writing’’, Journal of West Indian Literature, C. 6.2, s.88-96. Phillips, Caryl (1985). The Final Passage, London: Faber&Faber. Phillips, Caryl (1993). Crossing the River, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Phillips, Caryl (1999). “A Dream Deferred: Fifty Years of Caribbean Migration to Britain”, Kunapipi, C.21.2, s.106-108. Phillips, Caryl (2001). A New World Order, London: Secker and Warburg Random House. Visser, Irene (2011). “Trauma Theory and Postcolonial Literary Studies.”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, C.47.3, s.46-52. Yelin, Louise (2009). ‘’An Interview with Cary Phillips’’, Conversations with Caryl Phillips, Edt. Renee T. Schatteman, University Press of Mississippi, s.240-252.
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| Primary Language | Turkish |
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| Subjects | Literary Studies |
| Journal Section | ARAŞTIRMA MAKALELERİ |
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| Publication Date | October 25, 2020 |
| Submission Date | June 10, 2020 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 |
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Journal of Literary Criticism is a refereed journal published in the scope of literature.