Ishiguro’s When we were orphans: from the modern realistic shelter to floating shatters

Authors

  • Silvia Mara Tellini UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas – Departamento de Letras. São José do Rio Preto – SP – Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58943/irl.vi42.9704

Keywords:

When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro, Identity, Memory,

Abstract

The present work is a reading of the tension forces between the modern and what some critique calls ‘post-modern’ logics in constant dispute, by focusing on detective Christopher Banks’ narrative, in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fifth novel, When We Were Orphans (2000). The binary positivist logics of this narrative encounter a world where the simplistic jigsaw puzzle solving rationality cannot aid to signify the new social and political context, now under extreme changes. Therefore, this analysis discusses with cultural studies the implications of new theories regarding the concepts of identity and memory, in its interrelations to the sociological and historical discursive aspects of collective memories in the narrative.

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Published

13/04/2017

Issue

n.42, 2016

Section

Identities: the I and the other in literature

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