Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives(Contemporary Critical Perspectives)

Table of Contents:
Foreword: On Having a Contemporary like Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's Life Introduction: 'Your words open windows for me': The Art of Kazuo Ishiguro, Sebastian Groes (Roehampton University, UK) and Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham, UK) 1. 'Somewhere just beneath the surface of things': Ishiguro's short fiction in context, Brian W. Shaffer (Rhodes College, Memphis, USA) 2. Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan, Motoyuki Shibata (Tokyo University, Japan) and Motoko Sugano (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) 3. 'Like the gateway to another world': Kazuo Ishiguro's Screenwriting, Sebastian Groes (Roehampton University) and Paul-Daniel Veyret (Universite de Montaigne-Bordeaux, France) 4. History, Memory and the Construction of Gender in A Pale View of Hills, Justine Baillie (University of Greenwich, UK) and Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham, UK) 5. Artifice and Absorption: The Modesty of The Remains of the Day, David James (University of Nottingham, UK) 6. 'To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in The Unconsoled, Richard Robinson (University of Swansea, UK) 7. When We Were Orphans: Narration and Detection in the case of Christopher Banks, Helen Machinal (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France) 8. Controlling Time: Never Let Me Go, Mark Currie (University of East Anglia, UK) Afterword: On First Reading Never Let Me Go, John Mullan (University College, London, UK) 'I'm Sorry I can't Say More': An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro, Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham) References Further Reading Index

About the Author :
SEBASTIAN GROES is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK.

Review :
"Kazuo Ishiguro is a magnificently diverse and elusive writer and this volume's rich multiplicity of perspectives suits him perfectly. It is required reading for those who are studying or simply enchanted by his fiction - criticism at its most absorbing and spirited." - Professor Richard Bradford, Professor of Literary History & Theory at the University of Ulster, UK "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 This expertly edited volume on Ishiguro's work, which concludes with an interview with the author, should prove invaluable to scholars and students working on his fiction- whether on single novels or stories, or his work as a whole. ... the chapters in this book are a valuable contribution to the increasing body of work on Ishiguro.