Kazuo Ishiguro’nun Değişen dünyada bir sanatçı ve Günden kalanlar isimli romanlarında millet ve milliyetçilik kavramlarının kuruluşu ve yapıbozumu.

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Hilal Doğru Bakar

Danışman: ELİF ÖZTABAK AVCI

Özet:

This thesis focuses in a comparative manner on the ways in which the nation and nationality are foregrounded as constructs in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1989). The ways in which Ishiguro’s novels construct and deconstruct “Japaneseness” and “Englishness” will be explored in the light of the theories of Benedict Anderson and Homi K. Bhabha. The thesis will also focus on imperial national identity formation of the unreliable narrators in these novels, both of which conclude by the narrators’ disillusionment as a result of alterations in the ways in which the national community is imagined.