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1233832 Global Circular Diaspora in the Study on Kazuo Ishiguro in China
Organizer(s):
Gang Wang, Shanghai University of Engineering Science (paisagem@163.com)
Abstract: Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese British writer who wins Nobel Prize in Literature in October, 2017. In China, people have studied Kazuo Ishiguro since 1987, most of which focusing on his novel, When We Were Orphans, as it takes Shanghai as the setting, though he has completed seven novels and one short fiction. During the past thirty years, scholars in China have been doing research on all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s works from the aspects of translation, theme, memory, identity, postcolonialism, and power mode, the study angles being papers, master theses, Ph.D. dissertations and books. This essay tries to explore all of these studies on Kazuo Ishiguro, pointing out both advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, through the angles of reality &illusion, time relationship and spatial relationship in Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans, the thesis draws the conclusion, for the first time in China that the most important feature in the novel is global circular diaspora. More importantly, his article points out that the creative new angle--global circular diaspora, with reality & illusion, time relationship, stream of consciousness, Limbo Theory, Iceberg Theory, music diaspora and Polyphony as the means of expression, should also be used to analyze all the other works of Ishiguro’s, which will be the innovative issue in literary study method and will effect profound influence of the study on Ishiguro in China.
Key words: Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans, global circular diaspora, China
Organizer(s):
Gang Wang, Shanghai University of Engineering Science (paisagem@163.com)
Abstract: Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese British writer who wins Nobel Prize in Literature in October, 2017. In China, people have studied Kazuo Ishiguro since 1987, most of which focusing on his novel, When We Were Orphans, as it takes Shanghai as the setting, though he has completed seven novels and one short fiction. During the past thirty years, scholars in China have been doing research on all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s works from the aspects of translation, theme, memory, identity, postcolonialism, and power mode, the study angles being papers, master theses, Ph.D. dissertations and books. This essay tries to explore all of these studies on Kazuo Ishiguro, pointing out both advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, through the angles of reality &illusion, time relationship and spatial relationship in Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans, the thesis draws the conclusion, for the first time in China that the most important feature in the novel is global circular diaspora. More importantly, his article points out that the creative new angle--global circular diaspora, with reality & illusion, time relationship, stream of consciousness, Limbo Theory, Iceberg Theory, music diaspora and Polyphony as the means of expression, should also be used to analyze all the other works of Ishiguro’s, which will be the innovative issue in literary study method and will effect profound influence of the study on Ishiguro in China.
Key words: Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans, global circular diaspora, China