Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day: A Historiographical Approach

Abstract

<p>This paper attempts to analyze Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>The Remains of the Day</em>, in the light of various ramifications of postmodern critical historiographical approaches. It investigates the different narrative strategies Ishiguro uses to narrate historical events and dismantle objectivity mainly; backshadowing, intermixing of historical and personal incidents, and first-person unreliable narrator. Great deal of Ishiguro’s text depth and complexity arises from the unreliability of the narrator whose narration presents several interpretive versions and controversial issues.</p>