Table Of Contents:
List Of Illustrations viii
List Of Abbreviations ix
Preface x

brian W. Shaffer
Acknowledgements xiii
Contributors xiv

Introduction: 'It's Good Manners, Really' - Kazuo Ishiguro And The Ethics Of Empathy 1(12)

Sebastian Groes

Barry Lewis
Part I Critical Overviews

1 Kazuo Ishiguro's Not-Too-Late Modernism 13(18)

Patricia Waugh

2 The Pedagogics Of Liminality: Rites Of Passage In The Work Of Kazuo Ishiguro 31(15)

Victor Sage

3 Lost And Found: On The Japanese Translations Of Kazuo Ishiguro 46(8)

Motoyuki Shibata

4 'One Word From You Could Alter The Course Of Everything': Discourse And Identity In Kazuo Ishiguro's Fiction 54(15)

Krystyna Stamirowska
Part II The Early, 'Japanese', Works

5 'Putting One's Convictions To The Test': Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist Of The Floating World In Japan 69(13)

Motoko Sugano

6 'Cemeteries Are No Places For Young People': Children And Trauma In The Early Novels Of Kazuo Ishiguro 82(13)

Caroline Bennett
Part III The Remains Of The Day

7 Can't Even Say I Made My Own Mistakes': The Ethics Of Genre In Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day 95(11)

Meghan Marie Hammond

8 Novelistic Practice And Ethical Philosophy In Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day And Never Let Me Go 106(12)

Lydia R. Cooper

9 Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day: Working Through England's Traumatic Past As A Critique Of Thatcherism 118(15)

Christine Berberich
Part IV The Unconsoled

10 Into The Labyrinth: Kazuo Ishiguro's Surrealist Poetics In The Unconsoled 133(11)

Jeannette Baxter

11 'Waiting For The Performance To Begin': Kazuo Ishiguro's Musical Imagination In The Unconsoled And Nocturnes 144(13)

Gerry Smyth

12 'Into Ever Stranger Territories': Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled And Minor Literature 157(14)

Tim Jarvis
Part V When We Were Orphans

13 'In The End It Has To Shatter': The Ironic Doubleness Of Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans 171(13)

Christopher Ringrose

14 'Shanghaied' Into Service: Double Binds In When We Were Orphans 184(15)

Alyn Webley
Part VI Never Let Me Go

15 The Concertina Effect: Unfolding Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 199(12)

Barry Lewis

16 'Something Of A Lost Corner': Kazuo Ishiguro's Landscapes Of Memory And East Anglia In Never Let Me Go 211(14)

Sebastian Groes

17 'This Is What We're Supposed To Be Doing, Isn't It?': Scientific Discourse In Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 225(11)

Liani Lochner

18 Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go And 'Outsider Science Fiction' 236

Andy Sawyer
The New Seriousness: Kazuo Ishiguro In Conversation With Sebastian Groes
Bibliography 265(15)
Index 280