The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with aesthetic value and political valency, with the vicissitudes of memory and historical documentation, and with questions of family, home, and homelessness. Focused through the personal experiences of some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction, Ishiguro's writing speaks to the major communitarian questions of our time – questions of nationalism and colonialism, race and ethnicity, migration, war, and cultural memory and social justice. The chapters attend to Ishiguro's highly readable novels while also ranging across his other creative output. Gathering together established and emerging scholars from the UK, Europe, the USA, and East Asia, the volume offers a survey of key works and themes while also moving critical discussion forward in new and challenging ways.
- A reliable, authoritative, accessible and clearly-written guide to Ishiguro's novels and short stories
- Covers all the major works and key themes and topics to provide a comprehensive introduction to Ishiguro and his work
- Collects up-to-date and innovative chapters from distinguished Ishiguro scholars and emerging experts in the field, specially commissioned to reflect current concerns in Ishiguro criticism and to move critical discussion forward in new and innovative ways
Product details
March 2023Paperback
9781108822022
293 pages
227 × 151 × 16 mm
0.43kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Kazuo Ishiguro in the World:
- 1. Ishiguro and the question of England Andrew Bennett
- 2. Ishiguro and Japan: History in An Artist of the Floating World Yoshiki Tajiri
- 3. Ishiguro and colonialism Liani Lochner
- 4. Immigration and emigration in Ishiguro Jerrine Tan
- 5. Ishiguro and translation Rebecca Karni
- Part II. Literature, Music, and Film:
- 6. The Ishiguro archive Vanessa Guignery
- 7. The unconsoled of The Unconsoled: Ishiguro and modernism Ulrika Maude
- 8. 'A more sophisticated imitation': Ishiguro and the novel Peter Boxall
- 9. Ishiguro and genre fiction Doug Battersby
- 10. Ishiguro's TV and film scripts Peter Sloane
- 11. 'I'm a songwriter at heart, even when I'm writing novels': Ishiguro and music Stephen Benson
- Part III. Ethics, Affect, Agency, and Memory:
- 12. Ethics and agency in Ishiguro's novels Robert Eaglestone
- 13. 'Emotional upheaval' in An Artist of the Floating World and The Buried Giant Cynthia F. Wong
- 14. Ishiguro and love Laura Colombino
- 15. Memory and understanding in Ishiguro Yugin Teo
- 16. Ishiguro's irresolution Ivan Stacy.
