The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108822022)

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.

Author: Andrew Bennett
ISBN-10: 1108822029
ISBN-13: 9781108822022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2023
Pages: 293
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d