Imaginary homelands revisited in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
Taking as a point of departure Salman Rushdie's essay "Imaginary Homelands," this paper will analyze the three novels of Japanese-born English writer Kazuo Ishiguro in order to demonstrate how the peculiarities of memory and a cross-cultural imagination work to create novels in which Japan and the J...
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Universidad de Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
1994
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| Sumario: | Taking as a point of departure Salman Rushdie's essay "Imaginary Homelands," this paper will analyze the three novels of Japanese-born English writer Kazuo Ishiguro in order to demonstrate how the peculiarities of memory and a cross-cultural imagination work to create novels in which Japan and the Japanese culture, either physically or subliminally, plays a vital role. Each novel is analyzed separately to reveal the cross-cultural elements, as well as how aspects of one culture shed light on another. To perceive parallels and articulate similarities in differences is perhaps the specific territory of the between-world writer. Kazuo Ishiguro's principal commitment in his novels is to observe interaction of the past and present, of East and West, and capture the evocative texture of memory. |
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