Research Article | Open Access
Exploring Cultural Amalgamation and Conflicts within Kazuo Ishiguro's Novels
JINCY S K, Dr. J. SUBITHA PERSIS
Pages: 493-497
Abstract
This paper seeks to find Cultural hybridity and Conflicts in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels. Kazuo Ishiguro was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. Here, one has to remember the cultural concepts of Japan and how it hybrid with British culture. The Nobel Prize winner Ishiguro has written seven novels. In these novels only his first two novels take place in Japan, hence this paper presents the Cultural hybridity and Conflicts in Kazuo Ishiguro’s two novels. Initially this paper gives a short background study of Japanese culture. Then it draws out attention deeply into the dissection of Ishiguro’s two novels A Pale View of Hills and An Artist in the Floating World separately. It also examines through some of the characters and also it explains in detail as how they are in conflict with the culture of Japan and western culture. This paper expresses how Ishiguro creates stereotypical and non-stereotypical characters and how they are related to cultural hybridity and conflict. Finally, this paper ends with concise points about this paper's ruling concepts and hybrid cultures such as Japanese and Western in Ishiguro novels in the conclusion part.
Keywords
Cultural hybridity, cultural conflict, Japan culture and western culture