Kazuo Ishiguro / edited by Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Kristian, editor.

Sloane, Peter, editor.

Series:

Twenty-first century perspectives.

Twenty-first-century perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ishiguro, Kazuo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume is an extensive edited collection devoted to the work of the 2017 Nobel Literature Laureate, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, featuring contributions from the most established Ishiguro scholars. It contains major new chapters on each of his novels, including the first published essay on Klara and the Sun as well as his short-story collection Nocturnes and his screenplays. Situating Ishiguro's work within current debates regarding modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, the chapters examine his engagement with the defining concerns of the contemporary novel, including national identity, Britishness, cosmopolitanism, memory, biotechnology, terrorism, Brexit, immigration and populist politics. Discussing Ishiguro as both a British and a global author, the collection contributes to debates regarding the politics of publishing of ethnic writers, examining how Ishiguro has managed to shape a career in resistance to narrow labelling where many other writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition. The collection opens with an extensive introduction by the co-editors which examines Ishiguro's body of work as a whole and Ishiguro's evolving literary reputation in light of his recent personal and commercial success. The book then offers individual chapters on each of Ishiguro's novels, his short-story collection and his television and film work, as well as his recent journalistic interventions. Each chapter aims to extend and update existing criticism on Ishiguro via engagement with the most up-to-date critical frameworks, while at the same time staying true to each text's most prominent thematic concerns. Given the prominence of its contributors and its comprehensive coverage, Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives will be the definitive volume of Ishiguro scholarship for years to come.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

Contributors

Series editors' preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: 'This is the way it feels to me': the writings of Kazuo Ishiguro

Diaspora, trauma, spectrality and world literary writing in A Pale View of Hills

Eloquence and empathy in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World

Ishiguro's tempered presentational realism and practice

'An inevitable course': political responsibility in The Remains of the Day

Klara in the junkyard: on loneliness in The Unconsoled

Novel dysfunction in When We Were Orphans

Empathy and the ethics of posthuman reading in Never Let Me Go

Nocturnes, hope and 'that croony nostalgia music'

Disinterring the English sublime: haunted atmospherics in The Buried Giant

Klara and the humans: agency, Hannah Arendt and forgiveness

Kazuo Ishiguro's film and television scriptwriting

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2026).

ISBN:

9781526157546

1526157543

OCLC:

44218704