National Identities, Personal Crises: Amnesia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

This article considers how Ishiguro’s 2015 novel about mass forgetting in post-Arthurian Britain adds to debates about what it means to be a human living within a society. There are four areas of enquiry linked by their emphasis on the interdependence of remembering and forgetting: ideas of memory i...

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Main Author: Charlwood Catherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-04-01
Series:Open Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0004