Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro

Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Shonaka, Takayuki (Editor), Mimura, Takahiro (Editor), Morikawa, Shinya (Editor)
Summary:XIII, 317 p. 2 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern > 21st century.
Literature > History and criticism.
Comparative literature.
Collective memory.
Contemporary Literature.
Literary Criticism.
Comparative Literature.
Memory Studies.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24998-3
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (Takayuki Shonaka, Takahiro Mimura and Shinya Morikawa)
  • Part I Early Japanese Influences
  • 1 Blithe Spirit: Young Ishiguro’s Contact with Japanese Children’s Culture through Shogakukan’s Graded Educational Magazines (Motoko Sugano)
  • 2 Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Ria Taketomi)
  • Part II Ghosts and Stereotypes
  • 3 Constructing Japan with Stereotypes: An Analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Family Supper’ (Yoshiki Tajiri)
  • 4 Envisioned ‘Ghosts Project’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Imaginary Nagasaki (Megumi Kato)
  • 5 The Hidden Ghost Story: Ishiguro, Ugetsu, and Troubled English Belief (Anni Shen)
  • Part III War and Responsibilities
  • 6 ‘The Shame of Being on the Wrong Side of History’: Defeat and the Failures of Masculinities in An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day (Kunio Shin)
  • 7 Between the A-bombing andResponsibilities for World War II: Changes in the Themes of Ishiguro’s Early Novels (Masako Matsuda)
  • 8 The Representation of the Sino-Japanese War and Cosmopolitanism in Empire of the Sun, When We Were Orphans, and My Shanghai, 1942-1946 (Erica Aso)
  • Part IV Creative Development
  • 9 Tracing the Origin of Kazuo Ishiguro through His Early Song Lyrics (Takayuki Shonaka)
  • 10 ‘The Remains’ of Charlotte Brontë in the Early Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Hiromi Nagara)
  • 11 The Evolution of Stevens towards The Remains of the Day (Shinya Morikawa)
  • Part V Past and Future
  • 12 Monumental Moments: Narrative Complicity in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Takahiro Mimura)
  • 13 Nonhuman/Posthuman Aspects in Kazuo Ishiguro’s New Millennium Novels (Hiroshi Ikezono). .

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