A new historicist approach to When We Were Orphans: The representation of memory vs reality

Emerged as a contemporary form of literary theory in 1980s, New Historicism aims to analyse text considering not only historical but also socio-cultural contexts essential background text. Therefore, keeps its own an approach that reveal the connections between and time it was written, thus facts particular hidden Apart from this, functions lay ground for different analyses aspects. One these stands interpretation by challenging way how history is evaluated through comparison and/or contrast reflected private/personal histories. Stressing on point there one single interpreted view, takes attention unreliability based narrator. As writer, Kazuo Ishiguro reveals himself who focuses narrator feeds his memories novels. Considering all these, this paper Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans (2000) depict subjective unreliable understanding intermingled with public history. Thus, differs another experiencer memory, historicised into personal differing completely what remains