Imaginary homelands revisited in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

• Autores: Rocío G. Davis
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, Nº 15, 1994, págs. 139-154
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • 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.