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This study aims to analyze trauma generated by the experiences of slavery and racism in English writer Caryl Phillips's fourth 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 contributes to other traumas they manifest. The traumatic analysis of Cambridge in this essay proves that traumas of the characters cause fragmentation in their subjectivities and a kind of cultural and identity disorder.

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