Uncovering the Mist of Forced Forgetting: On Forgiveness in The Buried Giant  

Uncovering the Mist of Forced Forgetting: On Forgiveness in The Buried Giant

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作  者:王盈鑫 WANG Ying-xin(English Department,Soochow University,Suzhou 215000,China)

机构地区:[1]苏州大学外国语学院

出  处:《海外英语》2020年第4期215-216,共2页Overseas English

摘  要:The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro begins with an elderly couple who start a quest for the past memory which disap pears under the spell of the she-dragon Querig.During,individual confrontations and collective revenges work together to disclose the dark secrets that have been withheld.At the same time,it probes into the problem of forgiveness:can forced forgetting enable individuals or collectives forget their dark history for either love or peace?Based on the analysis of the individual and collective memories embodied in the novel,the present paper by virtue of Paul Ricoeur’s theory of abuses of memory,especially forced forget ting exhumes Ishiguro’s critical attitude towards forced forgetting,which ignores the threatening elements of love and peace like vi olent revenge and betrayal.The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro begins with an elderly couple who start a quest for the past memory which disap-pears under the spell of the she-dragon Querig. During, individual confrontations and collective revenges work together to disclosethe dark secrets that have been withheld. At the same time, it probes into the problem of forgiveness: can forced forgetting enableindividuals or collectives forget their dark history for either love or peace? Based on the analysis of the individual and collectivememories embodied in the novel, the present paper by virtue of Paul Ricoeur’s theory of abuses of memory, especially forced forget-ting exhumes Ishiguro’s critical attitude towards forced forgetting, which ignores the threatening elements of love and peace like vi-olent revenge and betrayal.

关 键 词:FORCED FORGETTING FORGIVENESS bindividual CONFRONTATION collective VIOLENCE 

分 类 号:I106[文学—世界文学]

 

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