Research Of Traumatic Writing In The Buried Giant By Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro(1954-),Kazuo Ishiguro is an English novlist born in Japan,who won the 1989 Booker prize and 2017 Nobel Prize.The Buried Giant is the first novel published by Kazuo Ishiguro in 2015,which combines infinite care for the survivors of the disaster.The novel tells a seemingly idyllic British land in which a amnesia elderly couple starts the difficult journey of finding their son after a brutal massacreso.The old couple's way of finding a son can also be seen as their way of searching for memory.The memories they recovered were not fond,but put a proposition about remembering or forgetting before them,showing their great psychological trauma in the struggles.This thesis mainly starts from Herman's trauma theory,takes the traumatic theme of the novel characters as the research object,analyzes how Kazuo Ishiguro writes about the trauma of the survivors in the Holocaust,and further thinks about the healing way of the trauma.At the same time,this paper probes into the author's reflection on human trauma and his concern for human destiny under the background of globalization.This thesis is divided into three parts.The introduction introduces the life and works of Kazuo Ishiguro,and sort out the relevant research actualities of domestic and overseas,defines the basic theory of trauma theory and traumatic narration,sketches the relations between trauma theory and Kazuo Ishiguro,and expounds the feasibility and significance of the study of trauma writing in The Buried Giant.The main text divides into three chapters.The first chapter mainly explores the detailed demonstration of the traumatic theme in The Buried Giant,and excavates the harm caused by war to ordinary people through the individual trauma and group suffering.The second chapter explores the narrative strategies used by Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant.It mainly divided into three aspects:First,Kazuo Ishiguro constructs a looming level of organic narration between the memory and real life of characters,resulting in the story hidden under the fictitious writing technique of magic realism.;Second,Kazuo Ishiguro hides his trace cleverly out of the text of the novel,present the characters and stories in the novel more comprehensively by choosing a kind of omniscience narration mode from the outside;Third,Kazuo Ishiguro sets up the implied author when exiting text,invites the readers into the text through the implied author's narration,and puts forward the reader's own judgment;The third chapter explores the meaning of the traumatic writing in The Buried giant from the different attitudes of different characters in the novel before trauma,thus seeking a way to reconcile with the painful memory of the past and excavating an effective way to heal the traumatic experience.This thesis examines a series of spiritual crises caused by traumatic individuals and groups be amnesia collectively in novel narration of Kazuo Ishiguro,and discusses the ways of trauma therapy.By reading the works of Kazuo Ishiguro carefully,the author tries to discover the more value of his traumatic writing to provide some enlightenment for people who can not extricate from traumatic morass.