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Postcolonial Reading of “Englishness” in The Remains of the Day
LI Jingying, YAN Chunmei
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.09.001
Quzhou University, Quzhou, China
In The Remains of the Day, by depicting the protagonist Stevens’ identity-seeking expedition and recollections of the past and portraying typical English images like manor and butler, Ishiguro reflects the identity crisis faced by British people and discusses the embodiment of “Englishness” during postwar era. Aiming at exploring “Englishness” in the novel with “the other” theory in postcolonialism, this paper tries to call for searching for self and looking forward to the future.
Englishness, The Remains of the Day, identity, postcolonialism, “the other” theory
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