Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781501388453
ISBN-13 : 1501388452
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Book Synopsis Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature by : Chris Holmes

Download or read book Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature written by Chris Holmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them. How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining Ishiguro's fascination with characters who are profoundly constrained in their ability to understand global systems to which they are subject. Rather than following the established pattern of so-called global novels, which crisscross the planet exhibiting a knowing cosmopolitanism, Ishiguro's fictional engagement with the world comes principally in the form of characters who are cut off from the global systems that abuse them. By examining the ways in which Ishiguro foregrounds the in-process thinking of those who fail to comprehend their place in the flow of politics, culture, and ideas, Holmes positions Ishiguro as the great chronicler of everyday lives, and as such, prepares a mode of reading world literature that questions the assumptions for how we live and think with others when each of us is deeply limited.


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