A Traumatic Study Of The Identity In Kazuo Ishiguro's Works

Kazuo Ishiguro is a distinguished British contemporary novelist who has won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2017.Together with Sir Salman Rushdie and Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul,they are the greatest immigrant litterateurs of Britain.Until now,he has been nominated for the Booker Prize for two times,and won the prize by his The Remains of the Day in 1989.In recent years,Kazuo Ishiguo and his works are studied by more and more scholars.Comparing with his literary works which focus on the international topics,his early works whose contents or themes about the Japan or Japanese are seldom studied by the foreign scholars.On the other hand,although many scholars in China have done some researches about Ishiguro's works,there are few studies which combine the trauma theory with the identity theory together to study the traumatic experience or traumatic memory's impacts on people's identity in Ishiguro's works.Therefore,in order to make a further study about Ishiguro's works,this thesis chooses his three works A Pale View of Hills,An Artist of the Floating World,and A Family Supper as the objects of study,and mainly studies the identities of the characters with trauma theory.Based on the analysis of the loss of identity as traumatic person,the characters' contradictory identities in such traumatic society,and people's reconstruction of identity in the recovery period,this thesis aims to demonstrate that the traumatic experiences have great influence on people's identity.After admitting trauma and accepting the traumatic experience as a common part of life,the subject can recover from the trauma,and then reconstruct his identity.