Memory as a contesting element in two novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans Rumana Chowdhury Assistant Professor Department of English Language and Literature Premier University, Chattogrm. E-mail: chy.rmn@gmail.com Abstract: Kazuo Ishiguro, the Nobel Prize and Booker winning novelist is a writer of modern age. In his novels, he brings human feelings, emotions, trauma, love, and so on. In most of his novels, the author uses memory as one of his favorite topics.Memory is a crucial but a delicate power of human mind which is stored and regained. It plays a vital role in the characters of the novels of Ishigurothrough which the loss and gain what they deserve, is expressed.Most of Ishiguro's novels are covered with memory, reminiscence, and grief. Memorypersists to grow in significanceinside the humanities. It is observed that, in some of his novels, Ishiguro brings memory positively, and in some novels, it is used in an opposite way. His profound and elegiac work on memory is very much present in two of his renowned books:The Remains of the Day, and When We Were Orphans. This paper discovers how the textual characters of Ishiguro apply and establish the concept of memory in order to prove it as a contesting element in these two novels. Keywords: Memory, Emotion, Childhood, Trauma, Orphan, Past

Memory as a contesting element in two novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans - Rumana Chowdhury