Forgetting or making to forget: memory, trauma and identity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s "The Buried Giant"

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Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Forgetting or making to forget: memory, trauma and identity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s "The Buried Giant"
Authors:
Valančiūnas, Deimantas
In the Book:
History, memory and nostalgia in literature and culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. P. 213-228
Subject Category:
LT
Kolektyvinė atmintis / Collective memory; Kultūrinis identitetas / Cultural identitity; Proza / Prose.
Summary / Abstract:

EN[...] The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways Ishiguro engages with the topic of traumatic memories both on the personal and collective levels and to explore whether memory and acts of remembering and forgetting are autonomous or ideologically conditioned. Paper author argues that Ishiguro masterfully employs some of the genre conventions of fantasy literature to comment on the functioning of memory in the time of war in different historical and ideological contexts, exposing it not merely as individual, but also as collective, and therefore cultural and national, phenomenon.

ISBN:
9781527508767
Subject:
Literatūrologija / Literary Studies
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2022-01-18 13:29:57
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