Kazuo ishiguro, Sim, Wai-chew

Автор: Rebecca Suter
Название: Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro`s Early Novels
ISBN: 0824882377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824882372
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this convincing and provocative study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. "World literature" has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years: Aamir Mufti called it the result of "one-world thinking," the legacy of an imperial system of cultural mapping from a unified perspective. Suter views Ishiguro's fiction as an important alternative to this paradigm. Born in Japan, raised in the United Kingdom, and translated into a broad range of languages, Ishiguro has throughout his career consciously used his multiple cultural positioning to produce texts that look at broad human concerns in a significantly different way. Through a close reading of his early narrative strategies, Suter explains how Ishiguro was been able to create a "two-world literature" that addresses universal human concerns and avoids the pitfalls of the single, Western-centric perspective of "one-world vision."Setting his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986), in a Japan explicitly used as a metaphor enabled Ishiguro to parody and subvert Western stereotypes about Japan, and by extension challenge the universality of Western values. This subversion was amplified in the third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), which is perfectly legible through both English and Japanese cultural paradigms. Building on this subversion of stereotypes, Ishiguro's early work investigates the complex relationship between social conditioning and agency, showing how characters' behavior is related to their cultural heritage but cannot be reduced to it. This approach lies at the core of the author's compelling portrayal of human experience in more recent works, such as Never Let Me Go (2005) and The Buried Giant (2015), which earned Ishiguro a global audience and a Nobel Prize. Deprived of the easy explanations of one-world thinking, readers of Ishiguro's two-world literature are forced to appreciate the complexity of the interrelation of individual and collective identity, personal and historical memory, and influence and agency to gain a more nuanced, "two-world appreciation" of human experience.

Автор: Wong, Cynthia F. Y?ld?z, Hulya
Название: Kazuo ishiguro in a global context
ISBN: 0367880857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367880859
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: 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 wr

Автор: Teo, Yugin
Название: Kazuo Ishiguro and Memory
ISBN: 1137337184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137337184
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: An innovative study examining the work of memory in Kazuo Ishiguro`s novels. Drawing from Paul Ricoeur`s writing on memory, and a number of theorists on mourning, trauma and collective memory, this study introduces a unique conceptual framework that investigates the distinctive and cathartic work of memory that is inherent in Ishiguro`s novels.

Автор: Foniokova, Zuzana
Название: Kazuo ishiguro and max frisch
ISBN: 3631660502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631660508
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Since the late 1990s unreliable narration has garnered popularity in narrative theory and has sparked a lively debate among scholars. This book traces the theoretical discussions surrounding narrative unreliability and examines the relationship of unreliable narration to antimimetic techniques of portraying self-deception. Standing on the border between classical and postclassical narratology, the study analyses Kazuo Ishiguro’s and Max Frisch’s innovative narrative strategies, offering new perspectives on their ?uvre and on unreliable narration as a narratological concept. A comparison of the methods Ishiguro and Frisch employ to explore the psychology of their narrators reveals a fascinating parallel in their development as novelists.