Revisiting the Memory of Guilt in Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans
The object of this paper is to show how unreliable memories enhanced into a ‘family romance’ confront the fantasized reality when the hero leaves on his quest for ‘his’ truth. The hero’s deconstruction of fantasy involves moving through the maze of the ‘warren’ in old Shanghai, a metaphor for his ow...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-11-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13816 |