The Strange Case of the Disappearing Chinamen: Memory and Desire in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans
The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans are two novels concerned with the ambivalent nature of memory. In Ishiguro’s much-polarized fiction, Stevens’s Weymouth Pier is akin to Banks’s war-torn Shanghai: the West Country is the same terra incognita as the ruined city. Displacement and homeles...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-10-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13828 |