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CARYL PHILLIPS’İN CAMBRIDGE ROMANINDA KÖLELİK, IRKÇILIK VE TRAVMA DENEYİMLERİ

Year 2020, Volume: 8 Issue: 16, 231 - 248, 15.10.2020
https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.749398

Abstract

Bu çalışma, İngiliz yazar Caryl Phillips'in dördüncü romanı Cambridge’de kölelik ve ırkçılık deneyimlerinin yarattığı travma konusunu analiz etmeye yöneliktir. Bu çalışma, kölelik ve ırkçılığın etkilerini göstermek, geçmişin şimdiki zamanın kolektif belleğinde nasıl yaşadığına ışık tutmak için yazarın kullandığı anlatı stratejilerini araştırmaktadır. Cambridge romanında ırkçılık ve köleliğin insanlar üzerindeki travmatik etkilerine odaklanılır. Phillips, kölelik ve ırkçılık kavramlarını sömürgecinin ve sömürgeleştirilmiş olanın bakış açısından verir. Cambridge’in kadın kahramanı Emily, köleliği ve ırkçılığı sömürge yaklaşımı ile tasvir ederken Cambridge bu iki kavramı sömürgecilik sonrası bir yaklaşımla tasvir eder. Geçmişin travmatik deneyimleri hiçbir zaman karakterlerin peşlerini bırakmamaktadır. Ana karakterlerin yaşadığı ırkçılığın ve köleliğin travmatik olduğu ve ortaya çıkardıkları diğer travmalara da katkıda bulundukları belirtilmektedir. Cambridge romanının travmatik analizinin yapıldığı bu makale, karakterlerin yaşadığı travmaların öznelliklerinde parçalanmaya ve bir çeşit kültürel ve kimlik bozukluğuna yol açtığına dair kanıtlar sunmaktadır.

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  • Debacker, L. (2011). Postcolonial trauma: Edwidge Danticat’s the farming of bones and the haitian massacre of 1937 (Yayınlanmamış yüksek lisans tezi). Ghent Üniversitesi, Ghent.
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THE EXPERIENCES OF SLAVERY, RACISM AND TRAUMA IN CARYL PHILLIPS'S NOVEL CAMBRIDGE

Year 2020, Volume: 8 Issue: 16, 231 - 248, 15.10.2020
https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.749398

Abstract

This study aims to analyze trauma generated by the experiences of slavery and racism in English writer Caryl Phillips’s forth novel Cambridge. It explores narrative strategies employed by Phillips to show the effects of slavery and racism, shedding light on how the past lives in the collective memory of the present. The traumatic effects of racism and slavery on people are focused. Phillips gives slavery and racism from the colonizer and the colonized’s perspectives. Cambridge’s female protagonist Emily depicts slavery and racism through a colonial approach, but Cambridge depicts them through a postcolonial approach. Traumatic experiences of the past never chase characters. It is stated that racism and slavery the main characters experience are traumatic and contribute to other traumas they manifest. The traumatic analysis of Cambridge in this essay evidences that traumas of the characters cause fragmentation in their subjectivities and a kind of cultural and identity disorder.

References

  • Arana, R. V. (2004). Sea change: historicizing the scholarly study of black british writing. R. V. Arana ve L. Ramey (Ed.), Black british writing içinde (s. 19-46). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Boulanger, G. (2002). Wounded by reality: the collapse of the self in adult onset trauma. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38(1), 45-76.
  • Caruth, C. (1995). Recapturing the past: introduction. C. Caruth (Ed.), Trauma: explorations in memory içinde (s. 151-157). Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Caruth, C. (1995). Trauma and experience: introduction. C. Caruth (Ed.), Trauma: explorations in memory içinde (s. 3-12). Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Debacker, L. (2011). Postcolonial trauma: Edwidge Danticat’s the farming of bones and the haitian massacre of 1937 (Yayınlanmamış yüksek lisans tezi). Ghent Üniversitesi, Ghent.
  • Eckstein, L. (2003). Re-membering the black atlantic, on the poetics and politics of literary memory. New York: Rodopi.
  • Freud, S. (1995). Beyond the pleasure principle. P. Gay (Ed.), The Freud reader içinde (s. 594-627). London: Vintage.
  • Hallward, P. (2011). Fanon and political will. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 7(1), 104-127.
  • Hutcheon, L. (2002). Rethinking the national model. L. Hutcheon ve M. J. Valdes (Ed.), Rethinking literary history: a dialogue on theory içinde (s. 3-49). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ledent, B. (2002). Caryl Phillips: contemporary world writers. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • López R. ve Maria L. (2002). Irony’s political edge: genre pastiche in Caryl Phillips’s cambridge. R. Plo-Alastrue ve M. Martínez-Alfro (Ed.), Beyond borders: re-defining generic and ontological boundaries içinde (s. 131-137). Heidelberg: Carl Winter.
  • McWatt, M. (1982). The preoccupation with the past in west indian literature. Caribbean Quarterly: Critical Approaches to West Indian Literature, 28(1/2), 12-19.
  • Phillips, C. (1991). Cambridge. London: Bloomsbury Yayınevi.
  • Sharrad, P. (1994). Speaking the unspeakable: london, cambridge and the caribbean. De-scribing empire: postcolonialism and textuality içinde (s. 201-217). London: Routledge.
  • Spivak, G. C. (1999). A critique of postcolonial reason: toward a history of the vanishing present. Cambridge, MA ve London: Harvard University Press.
  • Swift, G. (2009). Caryl Phillips interviewed by Graham Swift. R. T. Schatteman (Ed.), Conversations with Caryl Phillips içinde (s. 11-18). Jackson MS: Mississippi University Press.
  • Visser, I. (2011). Trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies. Journal of PostColonial Writing, 47(3), 270-282.
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Primary Language Turkish
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Mehmet Güneş 0000-0002-6579-6359

Publication Date October 15, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 8 Issue: 16

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APA Güneş, M. (2020). CARYL PHILLIPS’İN CAMBRIDGE ROMANINDA KÖLELİK, IRKÇILIK VE TRAVMA DENEYİMLERİ. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 8(16), 231-248. https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.749398