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Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant

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Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s seventh novel The Buried Giant (2015) investigates the concept of memory in a fantastical tale which is set in the early medieval history of the post-Roman period. In a pattern of quest, the main characters embark on a journey to accomplish their mission. As for Axl and Beatrice, an elderly couple, it is to find their son and recall their lost memories. For Wistan, a Saxon warrior, it is to terminate the she-dragon named Querig whose magical breath causes a mist of forgetfulness across the land. In a narration where individual and collective memory prove to be interconnected, the writer contemplates on loss, regret, forgetting and remembering. While the mutual dependency of the individual and collective memories are presented throughout the text, the nature of traumatic experiences and mourning process is put under the limelight. The end of the novel puts an emphasis on the question of whether remembering is a blessing or a curse for both the individual and the community or nation. In this article, therefore, brief biographical information about Kazuo Ishiguro will be first given and afterwards the interconnected of individual and collective memory will be explored with the help of scholars such as Maurice Halbwachs, Cathy Caruth and Anne Whitehead. The opportunities offered by the individual and collective recollection, as well as the dilemmas and constraits it causes will be exemplified through the main characters in the novel.

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Kaynakça

  1. Borowska-Szerszun, Sylwia (2016). The giants beneath: cultural memory and literature in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant. Crossroads, 15/4, 30-41. Doi: 10.15290/cr.2016.15.4.03
  2. Caruth, Cathy (1996). Experience, Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press.
  3. Chattopadhyay, Piya (2015). Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro. The Agenda. https://www.youtube. Com/watch?v=QizlLvkdgnk. 12 Nov. 2016.
  4. Erll, Astrid (2011). Memory in Culture. Trans. Sara B. Young. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  5. Halbwachs, Maurice (1980). The Collective Memory. New York: Harper Colophon Books.
  6. Ishiguro, Kazuo (2015). The Buried Giant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  7. Lorek-Jezinska, Edyta (2016). Testimonies of absence: trauma and forgetting in The Buried Giant By Kazuo Ishiguro. Crossroads, 15/4, 42-51. Doi: 10.15290/cr.2016.15.4.04
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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Sanat ve Edebiyat

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

25 Eylül 2021

Kabul Tarihi

9 Haziran 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Cilt: 5 Sayı: 9

Kaynak Göster

APA
Gürova, E. (2022). Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi, 5(9), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.35235/uicd.1000611
AMA
1.Gürova E. Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2022;5(9):55-63. doi:10.35235/uicd.1000611
Chicago
Gürova, Ercan. 2022. “Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant”. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi 5 (9): 55-63. https://doi.org/10.35235/uicd.1000611.
EndNote
Gürova E (01 Haziran 2022) Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi 5 9 55–63.
IEEE
[1]E. Gürova, “Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant”, Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi, c. 5, sy 9, ss. 55–63, Haz. 2022, doi: 10.35235/uicd.1000611.
ISNAD
Gürova, Ercan. “Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant”. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi 5/9 (01 Haziran 2022): 55-63. https://doi.org/10.35235/uicd.1000611.
JAMA
1.Gürova E. Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2022;5:55–63.
MLA
Gürova, Ercan. “Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant”. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi, c. 5, sy 9, Haziran 2022, ss. 55-63, doi:10.35235/uicd.1000611.
Vancouver
1.Ercan Gürova. Individual and Collective Memory in Ishiguro’s the Buried Giant. Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi. 01 Haziran 2022;5(9):55-63. doi:10.35235/uicd.1000611

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