Kazuo Ishiguro Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro by leading international academics.

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Foreword: On Having a Contemporary Like Kazuo Ishiguro	p. vii
Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Contributors	p. xi
Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's Life	p. xiv
Introduction: 'Your Words Open Windows for Me': The Art of Kazuo Ishiguro	p. 1
'Somewhere Just Beneath the Surface of Things': Kazuo Ishiguro's Short Fiction	p. 9
Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan	p. 20
'Like the Gateway to Another World': Kazuo Ishiguro's Screenwriting	p. 32
History, Memory, and the Construction of Gender in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills	p. 45
Artifice and Absorption: The Modesty of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day	p. 54
'To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled	p. 67
Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans: Narration and Detection in the Case of Christopher Banks	p. 79
Controlling Time: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go	p. 91
Afterword: On First Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go	p. 104
'I'm Sorry I Can't Say More': An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro	p. 114
References	p. 126
Further Reading	p. 133
Index	p. 149
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