Author(s)

Mengmeng Wei ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Literature, Journalism and Communication, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China

Corresponding Author

Mengmeng Wei

ABSTRACT

A Pale View of Hills is the representative work of the British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The main content of the novel is Etsuko's real life in the UK and her memories of Japan before immigration. The narrator "I" fabricates the image of Etsuko as "the angel in the house" to justify herself. She tried to hide the trauma of her war memories through the stories of Sachiko and Mariko. The identity anxiety caused by the dual oppression of patriarchy and imperial colonialism is manifested in the recall process, which accords with the identity characteristics of "subaltern" of Spivak's female heterogeneity theories. By analyzing the text from the perspective of Spivak's female heterogeneity theories, the novel shows a stand of resisting colonialism, exposes the complicity of colonial war and patriarchy, and shows the tragic situation of Japanese women under the nature of semi-colonial.

KEYWORDS

Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills, Identity construction, Heterogeneity

CITE THIS PAPER

Mengmeng Wei. Analysis of Identity Construction in A Pale View of Hills from the Perspective of Spivak's Female Heterogeneity Theories. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2026). Vol. 9, No.1, 19-26. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2026.090103.

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