Postcolonial Reading of“Englishness”in The Remains of the Day  

作　　者：LI Jingying YAN Chunmei 

机构地区：[1]Quzhou University,Quzhou,China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2021年第9期233-237,共5页美中外语（英文版）

基　　金：This work is the one of the results of“Study on Ethics of Mantel’s Fiction”(Project Number:2021GH016);supported by key humanities and social science research project among universities in Zhejiang Province.

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：Englishness The Remains of the Day IDENTITY postcolonialism “the other”theory 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]