| The Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has always rejected such labels as “Japanese writer” or “post-colonial writer”.However,It can be found that “Japan” is an important factor in Kazuo Ishiguro’s creation,whether it is from his background,creation of origin novels or his writing style.In his early two novels,A Pale View of Hill and An Artist of the Floating World.We can see the writer’s direct and vivid representation of Japanese images.Although starting from the third novel The Remains of the Day,in order to deliberately avoid too much attention on the “Japanese identity” of the academic circle,and also with the maturity of his own creative methods,Ishiguro’s novels no longer appear the image of Japan directly,but it showed the diversity and richness of an international writer.Yet we can still feel the imprint of Japanese culture in the unique “quietness” and “faint sadness” of Ishiguro Kazuo’s writing style.This paper takes Kazuo Ishiguro’s Japanese image writing as the research object,adopts the method of close reading and combines the theories of modernity,post-colonialism and Japanese anthropology and sociology,to explore the Japanese image writing in Ishiguro’s novels from the perspective of modernity,post-colonialism and history.The introduction is mainly a brief overview of Ishiguro Kazuo’s research at home and abroad,as well as the reasons for choosing the topic,the research content and ideas.In the first chapter of the dissertation,through the descriptive analysis of the image of the modern Japanese that is declining in tradition,we discusses the Japanese identity Ishiguro questioned and sympathetic view of progress,analyze its modernity reflection blend of eastern and western characteristics,namely undertake Japan attaches great importance to the daily life experience in criticism.The second chapter examines the Japanese image in the novel from the perspective of post-colonial vision,and analyzes how Ishiguro Kazuo unveiled the “lie” of the Japanese nation in the Oriental vision through the writing of the Japanese image,showing a delicate and tough outside the Oriental vision Japan.It also focuses on how the writer deeply analyzes the essence of hegemony behind lies,as well as the concerns and anxieties about the crisis of national culture in the multi-culture of “decoration”.After completing two early Japanese-themed novels,starting from The Remains of the Day,how will this kind of creation change appear in the Japanese image writing of the writer? Based on this,the third chapter of the dissertation reviews the changes in Japanese image writing in Ishiguro’s creations from a historical perspective,and finds that the ethnicity of the writer’s creation is diminishing and internationalism has gradually become apparent,but ethnicity has always been its a part of the novel’s creation is only gradually faded from the early and direct Japanese background into the character’s character,the Japanese elements in the relationship,and finally formed the unique quietness of Ishiguro Kazuo with sorrow and criticism with compassionate writing style,and this unique Ishiguro-male style has also become a permanent spiritual connection between the writer and his home country,Japan.In the end,all research on works must be implemented to what it brings to the literature itself.Therefore,the fourth chapter of the thesis mainly explores the role and influence of Ishiguro’s Japanese image writing in the history of British literature.First of all,Ishiguro’s Japanese image writing greatly subverted the western stereotypes of the Japanese nation.His Japanese description has become a “antidote” to the Japanese representative of the Japanese world by Yukio Mishima.Secondly,Ishiguro,who has a dual cultural background of English and Japanese,combines the solemn elegance of classical English prose with the quietness and peace unique to Japanese culture,and inherits the critical spirit of the Western realist tradition.The truth of chaos and imbalance is explored in this unique style of quietness. |
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