"This edited collection of new and insightful critical essays brings together a wide range of academics whose work stages a forum exploring the key aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Featuring an interview with Ishiguro, this groundbreaking book is ideal for anyone studying the work of this major contemporary author"--
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.
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Contents
Introduction: 'It's Good Manners Really': Kazuo Ishiguro and the ethics of empathy / Sebastian Groes and Barry Lewis -- Kazuo Ishiguro's not too late modernism / Patricia Waugh -- The pedagogics of liminality: rites of passage in the work of Kazuo Ishiguro / Victor Sage -- Lost and found: on the Japanese translations of Kazuo Ishiguro / Motoyuki Shibata -- 'One Word from You Could Alter the Course of Everything': discourse and identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction / Krystyna Stamirowska -- 'Putting one's convictions to the test': Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist if the Floating World in Japan / Motoko Sugano -- 'Cemeteries are No Places for Young People': children and trauma in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro / Caroline Bennett -- 'I Can't Even Say I made My Own Mistakes': the ethics of genre in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day / Meghan Marie Hammond --
Novelistic practice and ethical philosophy in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go / Lydia R. Cooper -- Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day: working through England's traumatic past as a critique of Thacherism / Christine Berberich -- Into the labyrinth: Kazuo Ishiguro's surrealist poetics in The Unconsoled / Jeannette Baxter -- 'Waiting for the performance to Begin': Kazuo Ishiguro's musical imagination in The Unconsoled and Nocturnes / Gerry Smyth -- 'Into Ever Stranger Territories': Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and minor literature / Tim Jarvis -- 'In the End it has to Shatter': the ironic doubleness of Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans / Christopher Ringrose -- 'Shanghaied' into service: double binds in When we were Orphans / Alyn Webley -- The concertina effect: unfolding Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go / Barry Lewis --
'Something of a Lost Corner': Kazuo Ishiguro's landscapes of memory and East Anglia in Never Let Me Go / Sebastian Groes -- 'This is what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?': scientific discourse in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go / Liani Lochner -- Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and 'Outsider Science Fiction' / Andy Sawyer -- The new seriousness: Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Sebastian Groes.