Kazuo Ishiguro

JEANNETTE BAXTER Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University, UK CAROLINE BENNETT Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Liverpool Hope University, UK CHRISTINE BERBERICH Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK LYDIA R. COOPER Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature, Monmouth College, USA MEGHAN MARIE HAMMOND Doctoral Candidate in English Literature, New York University, USA LIANI LOCHNER Doctoral Candidate in English and Related Literature, University of York, UK SEAN MATTHEWS (Consultant Editor) Director of Humanities, University of Nottingham's Malaysia campus, Malaysia CHRISTOPHER RINGROSE Principal Lecturer in English and Head of Learning and Teaching in the Arts, University of Northampton, UK VICTOR SAGE Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of East Anglia, UK ANDY SAWYER Librarian of the Science Fiction Foundation Collection and Course Director of the MA in Science Fiction Studies, University of Liverpool, UK BRIAN W. SHAFFER Professor of English and Dean of Academic Affairs, Rhodes College, Memphis, USA MOTYUKI SHIBATA Professor of American Literature, University of Tokyo, Japan GERRY SMYTH Reader in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK KRYSTYNA STAMIROWSKA Professor of English Literature, Jagiellonian University, Poland MOTOKO SUGANO Teaches at Takushoku University, Tokyo, Japan PATRICIA WAUGH Professor of English Literature, Durham University, UK ALYN WEBLEY Freelance Reviewer and Reader, Welsh Books Council, UK

This edited collection of new and insightful critical essays brings together a wide range of academics whose work stages a forum exploring the key aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Featuring an interview with Ishiguro, this groundbreaking book is ideal for anyone studying the work of this major contemporary author.Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest contemporary authors who possesses that increasingly rare distinction of being a writer who is both popular with the general reading public and well-respected within the academic community. Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels presents eighteen fresh perspectives on the author's work that will appeal to those who read him for pleasure or for purposes of study. Established and rising critics reassess Ishiguro's works from the early 'Japanese' novels through to his short story cycle Nocturnes, paying particular attention to The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go. They address universal themes such as history, memory and mortality, but also provide groundbreaking explorations of diverse areas ranging from the posthuman and 'minor literature' to ethics, science fiction and Ishiguro's musical imagination. Featuring an insightful interview with Ishiguro himself, this collection of essays constitutes a significant contribution to the appreciation of his novels, and forms a lively and nuanced constellation of critical enquiry. Preface by Brian W. Shaffer. Essays by: Jeannette Baxter, Caroline Bennett, Christine Berberich, Lydia R. Cooper, Sebastian Groes, Meghan Marie Hammond, Tim Jarvis, Barry Lewis, Liani Lochner, Christopher Ringrose, Victor Sage, Andy Sawyer, Motoyuki Shibata, Gerry Smyth, Krystyna Stamirowska, Motoko Sugano, Patricia Waugh, Alyn Webley.