05906nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-24998-3 DE-He213 20251030110909.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240103s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031249983 978-3-031-24998-3 10.1007/978-3-031-24998-3 doi PN695-779 DSBH bicssc LIT024000 bisacsh DSBH thema Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro [electronic resource] / edited by Takayuki Shonaka, Takahiro Mimura, Shinya Morikawa. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 317 p. 2 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Introduction (Takayuki Shonaka, Takahiro Mimura and Shinya Morikawa) -- Part I Early Japanese Influences -- 1 Blithe Spirit: Young Ishiguro’s Contact with Japanese Children’s Culture through Shogakukan’s Graded Educational Magazines (Motoko Sugano) -- 2 Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Ria Taketomi) -- Part II Ghosts and Stereotypes -- 3 Constructing Japan with Stereotypes: An Analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Family Supper’ (Yoshiki Tajiri) -- 4 Envisioned ‘Ghosts Project’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Imaginary Nagasaki (Megumi Kato) -- 5 The Hidden Ghost Story: Ishiguro, Ugetsu, and Troubled English Belief (Anni Shen) -- Part III War and Responsibilities -- 6 ‘The Shame of Being on the Wrong Side of History’: Defeat and the Failures of Masculinities in An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day (Kunio Shin) -- 7 Between the A-bombing andResponsibilities for World War II: Changes in the Themes of Ishiguro’s Early Novels (Masako Matsuda) -- 8 The Representation of the Sino-Japanese War and Cosmopolitanism in Empire of the Sun, When We Were Orphans, and My Shanghai, 1942-1946 (Erica Aso) -- Part IV Creative Development -- 9 Tracing the Origin of Kazuo Ishiguro through His Early Song Lyrics (Takayuki Shonaka) -- 10 ‘The Remains’ of Charlotte Brontë in the Early Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Hiromi Nagara) -- 11 The Evolution of Stevens towards The Remains of the Day (Shinya Morikawa) -- Part V Past and Future -- 12 Monumental Moments: Narrative Complicity in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Takahiro Mimura) -- 13 Nonhuman/Posthuman Aspects in Kazuo Ishiguro’s New Millennium Novels (Hiroshi Ikezono). . This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, showing how Ishiguro remains greatly indebted to Japanese culture and sensibilities. The influence of Japanese literature and film is evident in Ishiguro’s early novels as he deals with the problem of the atomic bomb and Japan’s war responsibility, yet his later works also engage with folk tales and the modern popular culture of Japan. The chapters consider a range of Japanese influences on Ishiguro and adaptations of Ishiguro’s work, including literary, cinematic and animated representations. The book makes use of newly archived drafts of Ishiguro’s manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas to explore the origins of his oeuvre. It also offers sharp, new examinations of Ishiguro’s work in relation to memory studies, especially in relation to Japan. Takayuki Shonaka is Professor in English Literature at Kyoto Women’s University, Japan. His research and teaching expertise are in British and American Culture, Language, and Literature. He is the author of Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Nihon’ to ‘Igirisu’ no Hazama kara [Kazuo Ishiguro: From Between ‘Japan’ and ‘England’] (2011). Takahiro Mimura is Professor in English at Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan. He studies contemporary English novels especially from the perspective of memory. He is the author of Kazuo Ishiguro Wo Yomu [Reading Kazuo Ishiguro] (2022) and Kioku To Zinbungaku [Memory and the Humanities] (2021). Shinya Morikawa is Professor in English Literature at Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan. His research interests include contemporary British fiction, international migration novels, and literary stylistics. Heis a co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro No Shisen: Kioku, Souzou, Kyoushu [Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gaze: Memory, Imagination, Nostalgia] (2018). . Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Literature History and criticism. 66499 Comparative literature. Collective memory. 68201 Contemporary Literature. 66702 Literary Criticism. 66500 Comparative Literature. Memory Studies. 68202 Shonaka, Takayuki. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 68945 Mimura, Takahiro. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 68946 Morikawa, Shinya. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 68947 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031249976 Printed edition: 9783031249990 Printed edition: 9783031250002 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24998-3 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 57015 57015