Territory And Deterritorialization:The Transmutation Of English Landscape By Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-English writer whose identity,like his novels,has been widely focused on.But throughout his novels,after the publication of two novels set in Japan,he has continued to devote more attention to England.Landscape was a cognitive devices with which he wrote about England,and exploring the changes in landscape can help us understand the complexity and dynamics of such an influential writer.Therefore,in this paper,the author will use the method of text close reading,Ishiguro’s four novels of the landscape description as the material,and Deleuze and Gatali’s deterritorialization theory to start to discuss the evolution of Ishiguro’s landscape description and its significance.Landscape was encoded in English literature and evolved into a set of standards.The protagonist in The Remaining of the Day views the landscape in such a standardized way and places the landscape in a standardized landscape context to emphasize his identity as a British housekeeper.Never Let Me Go produced a specimen of a landscape in England to reinforce the identity of the clones and to discipline them.In When We Are Orphans,the protagonist builds a world around what he considers to be a perfect garden landscape,thereby confirming his identity,while maintaining the integrity of the English garden by portraying the Chinese neighborhoods as Dickensian dark cities.But in the latter part of the novel,tiny Oriental elements,as molecular forces,seep into the overall landscape of the English house.The landscape territory moves towards the relative deterritorialization.The protagonist has to accept his ambiguous identity as both British and non-British.In the study of The Buried Giant,landscape appear to unamed an unstylized,get out of the territory of England landscape,and becoming-east,cancelled the original binary mechanism of east-west,the east and the west present a dependent relationship and penetration.The husband and wife in the novel also break away from all the original relationships,get out of the existing national identity and family identity.The conclusion of this paper is that the landscape of England in Ishiguro’s works shows a change from territory to deterritorialization.Correspondingly,the characters in the novel also move from the strong national identity to the deterritorialization of identity.