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Editorial Note
Jul 01, 2007; Bewes, Timothy ... Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer who both invites superlative assessments and confounds them. His stories have been regularly described as "heartbreaking"; his prose is acclaimed for its "breathtaking style" and "beauty"; and yet, with regard to the works published since The Remains of the Day at ...
Afterword: Now They Are Orphans
Jul 01, 2007; Nunokawa, Jeff ... We had a dog when I was a child, whom we were obliged to leave behind when we moved. Not long after our departure, she broke free of her new situation (a family who loved her, perhaps, but not her own) and ran the mile or so back to the empty house where we had lived. My mother told me this ...
Cruelty Is Bad: Banality and Proximity in Never Let Me Go
Jul 01, 2007; Robbins, Bruce ... One of the signature effects of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction is a moment when a character behaves with sudden, inexplicable, and astonishing cruelty-not to a stranger, but to an intimate. These episodes are always a bit cumbersome to cite, as the reader cannot fully understand quite how bad or how ...
Immaterial Labors: Ishiguro, Class, and Affect
Jul 01, 2007; Fluet, Lisa ... Mr. Stevens's Generation For we were, as I say, an idealistic generation .... Mr. Stevens, The Remains of the Day Why does Mr. Stevens choose to speak for a generation? He does so more than once, in a chapter where he also describes the "dignity" essential to the career ...
Introduction: Antisocial Goods
Jul 01, 2007; Fluet, Lisa ... The final film in the series of production/direction collaborations of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory features a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. The White Countess, released in 2005, invokes many character-types, plot situations, settings and conflicts developed in his novels, making it a ...
Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature
Jul 01, 2007; Walkowitz, Rebecca L ... In recent debates about the new world literature-now understood as literature that circulates outside the geographic region in which it was produced-it is often assumed that texts are being translated into English and that the process of translation leads to cultural as well as political ...
Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust
Jul 01, 2007; Davies, J Marina ... First Person Sexual MICHAEL LUCEY, Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 336, doth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. Gide records in his journal that during a discussion of his memoirs, Proust exhorted him, "You can tell anything, but ...
About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Jul 01, 2007; Elliott, Jane ... Rethinking Narrative Time MARK CURRIE, About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007), pp. 176, cloth, £40.00. If there is one sure sign that literary critical approaches to contemporary fiction are undergoing a transformation, it is the status ...
Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time
Jul 01, 2007; Davidson, Michael ... The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature WAI CHEE DIMOCK, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 264, cloth, $35.00. With Through Other Continents Wai Chee Dimock joins a growing number of Americanists searching for ways of ...
Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community
Jul 01, 2007; Walker, Cheryl L ... Identification and Difference JEAN VVYATT, Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community (Albany: State U of New York P, 2004), pp. 286, doth, $71.50, paper, $29.95. By focusing on the structures of psychic identification, feminist critic Jean Wyatt analyzes a range of current ...
Modernism, Media and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
Jul 01, 2007; Donald, James ... Greasing the Channels MARK WOLLAEGER, Modernism, Media and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 364, cloth, $35.00. In August 1918, as First secretary to the Treasury in Lloyd George's Coalition, Stanley Baldwin explained to the House of ...
The War Complex: World War II in Our Time
Jul 01, 2007; Wirth-Nesher, Hana ... This Sand, These Beaches MARIANNA TORGOVNiCK, The War Complex: World War II in Our Time (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005), pp. 224, cloth, $25.00, paper, $17.00. As early as 1958, the historian Carl Becker observed that "The kind of history that has most influence upon the life of the ...
Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Jul 01, 2007; Mandel, Naomi ... Unusual Techniques BRIAN RICHARDSON, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 166, cloth, $55.95, paper, $24.95, CD, $9.95. Unnatural Voices is the first sustained study of outrageous, impossible, experimental and ...
International Settlements: Ishiguro, Shanghai, Humanitarianism
Jul 01, 2007; Bain, Alexander M ... How to Narrate a Crisis One of the most powerful complements to the globalization of literary studies has been a recent surge of attention to the relationship between literary and cultural studies, humanitarianism, and human rights (Balfour and Cadava; Stanton, "Humanities"). These areas ...
Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
Jul 01, 2007; Watkins, Evan ... Moving On Up BRUCE ROBBINS, Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 328, cloth, $35.00. "WJio would've thought that the son of a poor Appalachian turd miner ..." Stephen Colbert, announcing in an ...
Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness
Jul 01, 2007; Gopinath, Praseeda ... Affect and the City PETER KALLINEY, Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006), pp. 288, doth, $59.50, paper, $22.50. Peter Kalliney's excellent Cities of Affluence and Anger joins a growing list of recent cultural ...