The "Exile" Identity And Japanese Memory In Kazuo Ishiguro's Novels

Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is a famous novelist in the 20th century.His works are known for their subtlety and uncertainty.As Rushdie said,;"the hidden tide is slowly emerging under the calm and depressed appearance of the novel."Kazuo Ishiguro's dual cultural identity makes his novels reminiscent of Japan,presenting a distinctive"exile" feature.Through continuous pursuit of memory,Kazuo Ishiguro tries to get rid of his "exile" identity.The Swedish Academy summarized his creation motifs as "memory,time,and self-deception," and praised that "his novels uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world and were driven by a great emotional force."This thesis chooses Kazuo Ishiguro's two novels,"A Pale View of Hills" and "An Artist of the Floating World",as the research object,exploring the relationship between the"exile" identity and the memory of Japan.This paper is divided into three chapters except introduction and conclusion.Combining his life story,the first chapter explores the author Kazuo Ishiguro who entitled with two different cultures.It focuses on discussing the "hybridization" of his Japanese memory in the blood and the real life in British and how the traces are presented.Kazuo Ishiguro has always been self-proclaimed by "internationalist writers",but the characteristics of "exile" identity was incredibly increased because he cannot avoid seeking the identity of his own.Focusing on "A Pale View of Hills" and "An Artist of the Floating World" and choosing "Children's Trauma Memory" and "War Culture Trauma" as the entry point for analyzing the trauma theme,the second chapter discusses the impact of external social environment and internal family environment on trauma of the protagonist.It expresses the "exile" identity of the author through the novel.The third chapter mainly discusses the two narrative strategies of Kazuo Ishiguro,unreliable narrative and time and space interlacing,by which presents the fragmented Japanese memory in three dimensions.These two strategies shows the flawless,fresh,poetic and lonely reading aesthetics of traumatic writing.It is also this way of writing that makes the expression of Japanese memory and "exile identity"interrelate with each other and unique.