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Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context
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Global Ishiguro. Introduction: Ishiguro and his worlds in literature. Part 1 Crossing National and Aesthetic Borders: Kazuo Ishiguro and 'imagining Japan'. Reworking myths: stereotypes and genre conventions in Kazuo Ishiguro's work. Memory, nostalgia and recognition in Ishiguro's works. 'You never know who you're addressing': a study of the inscribed 'you' in The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro and Heidegger: the worlds of art. Part 2 Translations of Culture, Space, and Time: The Unconsoled: piano virtuoso lost in Vienna. Place identity and detection in When We Were Orphans. What Kathy knew: hidden plot in Never Let Me Go. 'How dare you claim these children are anything less than fully human?': the shared precariousness of life as a foundation for ethics in Never Let Me Go. Time and the threefold I in Never Let Me Go. Cosmos of similitude in Nocturnes. Oppositional narratives of Nocturnes.

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Cynthia F. Wong is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver, USA, and Hulya Yildizis Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

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“Like the lego bricks Cheng evokes to describe Ishiguro's short story collection, the individual arguments do assemble into a colourful, multifarious and yet cohesive appraisal of Ishiguro's global appeal.” - Dorothee Birke, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies

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