TY  - JOUR
TI  - A new historicist approach to When We Were Orphans: The representation of memory vs reality
AB  - Emerged as a contemporary form of literary theory in 1980s, New Historicism aims to analyse a text considering not only historical but also socio-cultural contexts as essential background to a literary text. Therefore, New Historicism keeps its own as an approach that aims to reveal the connections between the text and the time it was written, thus to reveal socio-cultural facts of that particular time hidden in a text. Apart from this, New Historicism also functions to lay ground for different analyses of a text from different aspects. One of these functions stands as the interpretation of historical facts by challenging the way how history is evaluated through comparison and/or contrast of how it is reflected as private/personal histories. Stressing on the point that there is not one single history that is interpreted by one single point of view, New Historicism takes attention to unreliability of the history based on the narrator. As a contemporary writer, Kazuo Ishiguro reveals himself as one who focuses on the unreliability of a narrator who feeds on his memories in his novels. Considering all these, this paper aims to analyse Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans (2000) to depict how the subjective and unreliable understanding of the history is intermingled with the public history. Thus, it aims to depict how a public history differs from one to another experiencer based on time and memory, and how history is historicised into a personal history differing completely from what it remains in the public history.
AU  - Özçelik, Kaya
DO  - 10.29000/rumelide.997581
PY  - 2021
JO  - RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
VL  - 0
IS  - 24
SN  - 2148-7782
SP  - 1150
EP  - 1159
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/1118594
ER  -