Negotiating Cultural Memory and Postcolonial Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The Day
This paper makes a comparison between Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day to explore how cultural memory and inherited history influence individual identity in the wake of empire. Both narratives are retrospective and first-person; both are journeys, and both characters have to d...