| Title: | Architectural Projections in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Early Prose and the Concept of Uchi |
| Author: | Andreea Ionescu |
| Publication: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 247-255 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Publisher: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Place: | Iaşi |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | As a metaphor, the house has been used to symbolise an array of things; it has stood for family, stability, or safety, but in the texts of Kazuo Ishiguro it gains new meaning. The symbolism of the house is central in all of his novels, however, in the first two, the setting makes the representations of the home have an echo of Japaneseness which the others lack. In A Pale view of The Hills the house is viewed through the eyes of the narrator from within her English country home into her earlier apartment, which she shared with her former husband, without it, down at the ragged hut where her doppelganger lives. In An Artist of the Floating World, the house is presented as an old- fashioned, but grand Japanese-style villa looking desolate after the war had taken its toll, ever so similar to post-war Japan. The aim of this paper is to identify the instances in which the Japanese other is captured in the symbolism of the house through one of the key components of the Japanese culture, the concept of uchi-soto (within-without). |
| Key words: | alterity, house symbolism, concept of Uchi, within-without, Japanese culture |
| Language: | English |
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