Three-dimensional Presentation Of Cultural Hybridity ——Spatial Construction In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels

Kazuo Ishiguro is a recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature as well as one of the "Three Heroes of British Immigrants".Ishiguro’s works cover extremely rich matter,including many representative themes such as identity,trauma,exile,and memory.This article chooses to study the construction of space in Ishiguro’s works,because space is an important issue in his writing.Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki and immigrated to the UK at five years old.Ishiguro encountered impacts of different space experiences in his life.Spatial construction is the starting point of his novel as well as the fields of character modeling and theme deepening.This article combines new cultural geography,"third space",spatial power,spatial narrative and other methods of spatial criticism to discuss the seven novels written by Kazuo Ishiguro.The spatial construction in his novels has multiple attributes including geography,society,psychology,and humanities.Ishiguro’s novel constructs a geographic space characterized by cultural hybridity,a social space characterized by power and a psychological space characterized by solitude.Because of the hybridity of geographic space,spatial imagery,genre and narrative strategy,and the identity of characters and authors,Ishiguro’s spatial construction is characterized by "hybridity".Through the hybridity of space,Ishiguro realized the breakthrough of the conservative island consciousness in British literature in the 1980 s and the reflection on the modernity of space.