A Panoptic Approach To Diaspora In Kazuo Ishiguro’sa Pale View Of Hills

Abstract

In recent years, one of the most challenging and explorable areas of literature was the Diasporic literature. In earlier days, the term diaspora dealt with the Exile of the Israelites, but in recent days the word signifies the “Displacement of any living groups”. The Immigrant writers reveals the difference in their backgrounds as well as the contexts in which they have experienced. The Diasporic study deals with the issue of Dislocation, Quest for Identity, Discrimination, Survival, Struggle in Adaptation, Alienation, Cultural change andNostalgia. This paper focuses to bring about the diasporic elements in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “a pale view of hills”.
 A Pale View of Hills is a complicated novel, which weaves between present and past, reality and memories, major historical and private family events. Etsuko, is the narrator of the story, is a middle-aged mother who has transplanted her daughter Keiko from Japan to England in order that Etsuko can marry an English journalist with whom she eventually has a second daughter Nicki. Etsuko’s narration focuses on her review of the troubling past, including the loss of her entire family during the bombing of Nagasaki, her unhappy first marriage, the strange relationship with a neighbour she met in Nagasaki during her first pregnancy, and the recent suicide of her daughter Keiko after their move to England. The novel moves with the issue of Dislocation, aloofness, Nostalgia, which was created by a family Suicide and a Nuclear Genocide.