Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguro's evolving significance as a contemporary world author. The contributors take on a range of the aesthetic and philosophical themes that characterize Ishiguro's work, attending to Ishiguro's own self-identification as an international writer and making a case for his global significance.

Autorentext

Cynthia F. Wong is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver, USA, and Hulya Yildizis Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Inhalt

Global Ishiguro. Introduction: Ishiguro and his worlds in literature. Part 1 Crossing National and Aesthetic Borders: Kazuo Ishiguro and 'imagining Japan'. Reworking myths: stereotypes and genre conventions in Kazuo Ishiguro's work. Memory, nostalgia and recognition in Ishiguro's works. 'You never know who you're addressing': a study of the inscribed 'you' in The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro and Heidegger: the worlds of art. Part 2 Translations of Culture, Space, and Time: The Unconsoled: piano virtuoso lost in Vienna. Place identity and detection in When We Were Orphans. What Kathy knew: hidden plot in Never Let Me Go. 'How dare you claim these children are anything less than fully human?': the shared precariousness of life as a foundation for ethics in Never Let Me Go. Time and the threefold I in Never Let Me Go. Cosmos of similitude in Nocturnes. Oppositional narratives of Nocturnes.