Kazuo Ishiguro

Kristian Shaw is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of LincolnPeter Sloane is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Buckingham

'Shaw and Sloan have compiled a rich and wide-ranging collection on 2017 Nobel Literature Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro... This edited work adds to and extends the criticism of Ishiguro’s work with novel and fresh perspectives, and will be of interest to those who read and study world and comparative literatures.'CHOICEReprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.

• Introduction: ‘This is the way it feels to me’: the writings of Kazuo Ishiguro – Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane1 Diaspora, trauma, spectrality and world literary writing in A Pale View of Hills – Emily Horton2 Eloquence and empathy in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World – Cynthia F. Wong3 Ishiguro's tempered presentational realism and practice – Rebecca Karni4 ‘An inevitable course’: political responsibility in The Remains of the Day – Sara Upstone5 Klara in the junkyard: on loneliness in The Unconsoled – Bruce Robbins6 Novel dysfunction in When We Were Orphans – Andrew Bennett7 Empathy and the ethics of posthuman reading in Never Let Me Go – Peter Sloane8 Nocturnes, hope, and ‘that croony nostalgia music’ – Yugin Teo9 Disinterring the English sublime: haunted atmospherics in The Buried Giant – Kristian Shaw10 Klara and the humans: agency, Hannah Arendt and forgiveness – Robert Eaglestone11 Kazuo Ishiguro’s film and TV scriptwriting – Anni ShenAfterword – Sebastian GroesIndex