The Remains of the Day | Zen Comedy in Postcolonial Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
In the following essay, Rothfork asserts that Ishiguro's work "provides a particularly illuminating case study for postcolonial criticism ... because of the way that his work has been 'translated' for Western audiences."
Although Commonwealth literature (from the Commonwealth of Nations, hence written in English) and postcolonial literature (translated into English) are taught in many English departments, such courses and collections remain problematic for at least two reasons. First, taxonomically the designations never escape their flawed origins. Thus Jayana Clerk and Ruth Siegel, editors of a recent anthology (1995), virtually apologize for their title, Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World, saying that they “faced the dilemma of using a negative term that derives from a...
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