Abstract:
The discourse of migration from the periphery to the Centre is incorporated with
a sense of Deterritorialization and traumas of belonging to a fixed spatiality as a
universal articulation. The rhetoric of migration from the peripheral to the Centre
is infused with a feeling of reterritorialization and traumas of belonging to a fixed
spatiality. Kazuo Ishiguro, the Anglo-Japanese author, was subjected to a
situation of multiple spatiality due to his migrant experiences from Japan to
England. Yet as Japan was not a country subjected to the direct discourse of
Postcolonialism, Ishiguro was uprooted from the direct Japanese upbringing and
(re)positioned in a different territory that deviates from the usual cartography of
a crown colony. The research employs Ishiguro’s selected novellas, ‘A Pale View
of Hills’ (1982), ‘Remains of the Day’ (1989), and ‘Never Let Me Go’ (2005) as
the research sample. The selected sample offers Ishiguro’s acclamation of a new
spatiality through memory. It is obvious that Ishiguro elevates the notion of
nostalgia as an emotion equivalent to a concept of idealism which deviated from
the traditional cartography of nostalgia which always derives a nostalgic regret
by leaving the past. Moreover, this novice concept deviates Ishiguro from
characterizing himself as a migrant writer enticed to Japan as the place of his
‘becoming’ through his narratives. This social space suggests a sense of
Prohibition of his identity, creating a gulf between him and his consciousness.
The disturbed identity offered him a space whether he belonged to both Japan
and England, neither both nor to a new spatiality. The notion of an Abstract
spatiality is empowered by his negation of cultural hybridity and deviation from
nostalgia which offers him a New Transcendental space beyond a migrant.
Ishiguro’s transition is new when compared to other migrant writers and through
that, he re-constructs the identity affirmation of migrant subjects. Ishiguro’s
exploration of a Third space in the West provides a deeper awakening for
postcolonial subjects to be free from cultural in-betweenness and to find a unique
and distinct space in the West.
