The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro

The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 291
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro written by Andrew Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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