Not I - Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition / Franziska Quabeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quabeck, Franziska, 1981- author.

Series:

Anglistische Forschungen ; Volume 476.

Anglistische Forschungen ; Volume 476

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954---Criticism and interpretation.

Ishiguro, Kazuo.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

Not I Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition takes a closer look at how Ishiguros narrators deal with their metaphorical parents, their literary ancestors from Hamlet to Alfred Prufrock. Ishiguros narrators unwittingly express a metafictional concern about their existence in the shadows of English literary history and struggle with an imagined pressure to compete with iconic literary characters. This book traces their narrative anxiety against a variety of other canonical intertexts by William Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and T. S. Eliot and takes a closer look at the narrators narrative strategy of repression. Like Walter Benjamins angel of history, they all would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed through the carefully falsified construction of their stories. These narrators are never fully in control of their own narratives and so they inadvertently betray their own struggle for recognition.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Imprint

Acknowledgements

Contents

I Oddity, Alterity and Authenticity

II An Odd Woman: ‚A Pale View of Hills' (1982)

III An Odd Father: An Artist of the Floating World (1986)

IV An Odd Man: ‚The Remains of the Day' (1989)

V An Odd Son: ‚The Unconsoled' (1995)

VI An Odd Orphan: ‚When We Were Orphans' (2000)

VII An Odd Human: ‚Never Let Me Go' (2005)

VIII A Pink Elephant and ‚The Buried Giant' (2015)

Works Cited

Index

Backcover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Quabeck, Franziska Not I – Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition

ISBN:

3-8253-8654-6