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A Parallel Destruction Caused by Mankind: Suffers of Human and Nature through the Story of Etsuko

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 97 - 102, 30.03.2018

Abstract

Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel A Pale View of Hills written in 1982 can be accepted as the illustration of the psychology, trauma and sorrowful experiences of Japanese people underwent the bomb of Nagasaki. This explosion affects both men and nature in terms of their common fate, future and habitat beside human’s psychology and mental health. This article will reveal a wide research about atom bomb of Nagasaki and its effects on the lives of two important characters of the earth; Human and Nature. The main idea of the paper is to inform the reader of the human’s deeds which have affected not only nature but also human himself deeply. Especially, the parallel and miserable experiences which both man and nature have undergone will be dealt. In this sense, the main character of A Pale View of Hills, Etsuko, and the source of life, Nature, will be the main concern of the article.

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A Parallel Destruction Caused by Mankind: Suffers of Human and Nature through the Story of Etsuko

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 97 - 102, 30.03.2018

Abstract

References

  • A Photo-Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima an Nagasaki. (2017,10 Oct) Modern American Poetry. Retrieved from http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/levine/bombing.htm
  • Eckert, Ken. (2012). Evasion and the Unsaid in Kazuo Ishiguro's a Pale View of Hills. Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. 77-92.
  • Fowler, Edward. (1992). Rendering Words, Traversing Cultures: On the Art and Politics of Translating Modern Japanese Fiction. Journal of Japanese Studies, 18 (1), 1–44. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/132706.
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo. (1990). A Pale View of Hills. Vintage Books.
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo & Oe Kenzaburo. (1991). The Novelist in Today's World: A Conversation. Boundary 2, 18 (3), 109–122. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/303205.
  • Mason, Gregory, & Kazuo Ishiguro. (1989). An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro. Contemporary Literature, 30 (3), 335–347. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1208408.
  • Matthews, Sean & Baillie Justine. (2010). History, Memory, and the Construction of Gender in A Pale View of Hills. In Matthews, Sean & Baillie Justine (Eds). Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. (pp. 45-54) London: Continuum International Pub. Group.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Language Studies (Other), Turkish Language and Literature (Other)
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Bülent Cercis Tanrıtanır This is me

Fatma Karaman This is me

Publication Date March 30, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2018 Volume: 6 Issue: 1

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APA Tanrıtanır, B. C., & Karaman, F. (2018). A Parallel Destruction Caused by Mankind: Suffers of Human and Nature through the Story of Etsuko. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, 6(1), 97-102.