Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. Like the writings of Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro's work is concerned with creating discursive platforms for issues of class, ethics, ethnicity, nationhood, place, gender and the uses and problems surrounding artistic representation. As a Japanese immigrant who came to Great Britain in 1960, Ishiguro has used his unique position and fine intellectual abilities to contemplate what it means to be British in the contemporary era. This guide traces the main themes throughout Ishiguro's writing whilst it also pays attention to his short stories and writing for television. It includes a new interview with the author, a preface by Haruki Murakami and discussion of James Ivory's adaptation of The Remains of the Day.

ISBN 0826497233   Pages 168 ISBN13 9780826497239 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Weight (grammes) 415 Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Continuum Critical Perspectives Publication date 04 Feb 2010   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress PR6059   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 823.914   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

		Foreword: On Having a Contemporary Like Kazuo Ishiguro by Haruki Murakami
		Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's Life
Introduction		'Your Words Open Windows for Me': The Art of Kazuo Ishiguro by Sebastian Groes and Sean Matthews		1
Ch. 1		'Somewhere Just Beneath the Surface of Things': Kazuo Ishiguro's Short Fiction by Brian W. Shaffer		9
Ch. 2		Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan by Motoyuki Shibata and Motoko Sugano		20
Ch. 3		'Like the Gateway to Another World': Kazuo Ishiguro's Screenwriting by Sebastian Groes and Paul-Daniel Veyret		32
Ch. 4		History, Memory, and the Construction of Gender in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills by Justine Baillie and Sean Matthews		45
Ch. 5		Artifice and Absorption: The Modesty of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day by David James		54
Ch. 6		'To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled by Richard Robinson		67
Ch. 7		Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans: Narration and Detection in the Case of Christopher Banks by Helene Machinal		79
Ch. 8		Controlling Time: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go by Mark Currie		91
		Afterword: On First Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go by John Mullan		104
		'I'm Sorry I Can't Say More': An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro by Sean Matthews		114
		References		126
		Further Reading		133
		Index		149

"This illuminating collection recontextualizes all of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels and his often-neglected short stories; it offers new and exciting critical insights into his literary craft as well as examines his work in cinema and visual arts. Editors Groes and Matthews have generated a timely and engrossing text on this important contemporary British author, one that is sure to be referenced often by readers and critics of Ishiguro's works."- Cynthia Wong, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Colorado Denver, USA

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