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03854aam a2200373 i 4500 001 651FBE56DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 200219s2020 hiu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020007889 020 $a 0824889819 020 $a 9780824889814 020 $a 0824882377 020 $a 9780824882372 035 $a (OCoLC)1119478095 040 $a HU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDF $d OCLCO $d SEA $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6059.S5 $b Z896 2020 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Suter, Rebecca, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Two-world literature : $b Kazuo Ishiguro's early novels / $c Rebecca Suter. 264 1 $a Honolulu : $b University of Hawaiʻi Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 143 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "In this convincing and provocative 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 alternative to this paradigm. Born in Japan, raised in the United Kingdom, and translated into a broad range of languages, Ishiguro has throughout his career consciously used his multiple cultural positioning to produce texts that look at broad human concerns in a significantly different way. Through a close reading of his early narrative strategies, Suter explains how Ishiguro has been able to create a "two-world literature" that addresses universal human concerns and avoids the pitfalls of the single, Western-centric perspective of "one-world vision." Setting his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986), in a Japan explicitly used as a metaphor enabled Ishiguro to parody and subvert Western stereotypes about Japan, and by extension challenge the universality of Western values. This subversion was amplified in his third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), which is perfectly legible through both English and Japanese cultural paradigms. Building on this subversion of stereotypes, Ishiguro's early work investigates the complex relationship between social conditioning and agency, showing how characters' behavior is related to their cultural heritage but cannot be reduced to it. This approach lies at the core of the author's compelling portrayal of human experience in more recent works, such as Never Let Me Go (2005) and The Buried Giant (2015), which earned Ishiguro a global audience and a Nobel Prize. Deprived of the easy explanations of one-world thinking, readers of Ishiguro's two-world literature are forced to appreciate the complexity of the interrelation of individual and collective identity, personal and historical memory, and influence and agency to gain a more nuanced, "two-world appreciation" of human experience"-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A Two-World Author -- Across and Beyond Cultures -- Memory Can Be an Unreliable Thing -- Appearance and Pretense: Narrative Responsibility -- The Butler Did It: Diegetic Responsibility 600 10 $a Ishiguro, Kazuo, $d 1954- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Ishiguro, Kazuo, $d 1954- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00084645 650 0 $a Cultural fusion in literature. 650 7 $a Cultural fusion in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902958 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013916.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=651FBE56DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search