Navigating Wonder: The Medieval Geographies of Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Buried Giant"

This article explores Kazuo Ishiguro's use of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to reflect on the formation of British identity on a deep time scale to suggest alterity as inherent within the nation's foundational fictions. We argue Ishiguro borrows tactics from SGGK to destabilize the clari...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Arthuriana (Dallas, Tex.) Tex.), 2018-12, Vol.28 (4), p.68-89
Hauptverfasser:	VERNON, MATTHEW, MILLER, MARGARET A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	British & Irish literature British history Careers Cosmopolitanism Ecocriticism English literature Ethics EU membership Gaiman, Neil Genre History Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954- ) Japanese literature Novels Orphans Otherness Phenomenology Sovereignty Transnationalism Writing
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Zusammenfassung:	This article explores Kazuo Ishiguro's use of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to reflect on the formation of British identity on a deep time scale to suggest alterity as inherent within the nation's foundational fictions. We argue Ishiguro borrows tactics from SGGK to destabilize the clarity of national origins.
ISSN:	1078-6279 1934-1539 1934-1539
DOI:	10.1353/art.2018.0036