Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Novels

by Rebecca Suter

Book Overview

In this study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. "World literature" has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years: Aamir Mufti called it the result of "one-world thinking," the legacy of an imperial system of cultural mapping from a unified perspective. Suter views Ishiguro's fiction as an important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824882377
• ISBN13: 9780824882372
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"