Left in the Dark: Regimes of Affect and Political Passivity in Kazuo Ishiguro's the Remains of the Day

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dc.authoridOz, Ozge/0000-0002-0074-374X
dc.contributor.authorOz, Ozge
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:55:08Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:55:08Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractIn one of the latest commentaries on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day (1989), it is explained that the novel's protagonist Stevens is a true monster who has embraced antisemitism and fascism throughout his career and it is also underlined that although there is no question about Stevens's emotional repression horizontal ellipsis this trait has little to do with his racism and refusal to intervene morally in Darlington's household. The present paper aims to offer an alternative reading of the political agency and passivity of the novel's protagonist Stevens with the help of affect theory. This paper will read The Remains of the Day and its protagonist primarily by looking at their relationship with sense reception, motion, and emotion, and show that the apathy and affective restraint experienced by Stevens as an English butler underlies his political passivity. Such a reading will also enable the readers to perceive Ishiguro's work as a hopeful narrative affirming the power of affect in the matters of political emancipation and agency.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00111619.2021.2014392
dc.identifier.endpage352en_US
dc.identifier.issn0011-1619
dc.identifier.issn1939-9138
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85125399403en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage341en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2021.2014392
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8733
dc.identifier.volume64en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000758606200001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofCritique-Studies in Contemporary Fictionen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.titleLeft in the Dark: Regimes of Affect and Political Passivity in Kazuo Ishiguro's the Remains of the Day
dc.typeArticle

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