Serving a New World Order: Postcolonial Politics in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

O'Brien, Susie

doi:10.1353/mfs.1995.0178

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“…Analysing the text, researchers quite often place emphasis on the sphere of global, historical time rather than on the private sphere, pointing out the collapse of colonial ideology as one of the central motives in the book [15], [9]. A popular point of view on the novel is that it is a narrative about political and social contradictions Britain was experiencing in the beginning and the middle of the XX century, the most significant of which are the formation and the spread of fascism, World War II in Europe, the Suez crisis of 1956, increasing tensions in British-American relations and the beginning of America's cultural dominance [11], [9]. However, K. Ishiguro, commenting on the main idea of the novel in one of the interviews, mentions his "primary interest in personal aspects of the character's life rather than in the larger historical context of the XX th century" [6, p. 115].…”

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Representation of Englishness in the Narrative Structure of K. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Медведкина¹,

Vostryakova²

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on European Multilingualism: Shaping Sustainable Educational and Social Environment

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The article focuses on the narrative structure of K. Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. The phenomenon of Englishness as an ambivalent category is described through the peculiarities of the narrative structure of the literary text. The linguistic study of chronotope in the text under analysis makes it possible to prove the impossibility of positive evaluation of the nostalgic cultural stereotypes associated with the idea of Englishness in the narrative. The ambivalent character of Englishness as an example of national identity crisis is revealed in the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a British Booker prizewinner of Japanese origin.

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Representation of Englishness in the Narrative Structure of K. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Медведкина¹,

Vostryakova²

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on European Multilingualism: Shaping Sustainable Educational and Social Environment

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“…Stevens sees his father more as a butler than a family member. Susie G. Brien (1996) remarked that "Stevens' attitude to his father was consistent with his reliance on an anachronistic social order to provide him with a sense of self-definition" (p. 806). He addresses his father in the third person using the capital "F" as if the latter were an abstract entity.…”

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Analysis of “Discipline Power” in The Remains of the Day

Li¹

2021

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The objective of this study is to analyze “discipline power” and its implications for the service staff characters in the novel The Remains of The Day. From the perspective of Foucault’s power theory, especially the notion of discipline power, this essay explores these characters’ different destinies and responses to power. Contrary to many scholars who have discussed hierarchical power that easily finds expression in the master-and-servant relation in the traditional English house in this novel, the current essay mainly focuses on discipline power, which is internalized in people, allowing them to be unconsciously manipulated. Therefore, this essay first takes “Darlington Hall” as a model to analyze its disciplinary function and then turns to the main character, the butler, Stevens, who lives in the house and whose conduct mirrors how discipline shapes him. Finally, this essay points out solutions to the problem of the control of power by analyzing how Stevens and the housekeeper, Miss Kenton, renew their identities. This renewal echoes Ishiguro’s attempt to pay attention to the fates of marginalized people and console the unconsoled ones.

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Ishiguro,Kazuo

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2010

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth‐Century Fiction

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The Anglo‐Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro is perhaps best known for his protagonists who devote themselves completely to a chosen professional role – as artist, butler, pianist, or detective – and whose first‐person, confessional narratives paradoxically conceal more than they reveal about their past lives. Born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954, Ishiguro moved with his family to Britain in 1960, and was educated in Surrey, at Stoughton Primary School and Woking County Grammar School. He later read English and philosophy at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, graduating in 1978, and worked both as a community worker and a residential social worker in Glasgow and London. He then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia under the guidance of Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.

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Serving a New World Order: Postcolonial Politics in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

Cited by 26 publications

References 11 publications

Representation of Englishness in the Narrative Structure of K. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Representation of Englishness in the Narrative Structure of K. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Analysis of “Discipline Power” in The Remains of the Day

Ishiguro,Kazuo

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