{"product_id":"kazuo-ishiguro-against-world-literature-9781501388422","title":"Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eA study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHow has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In \u003ci\u003eKazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining Ishiguro's fascination with characters who are profoundly constrained in their ability to understand global systems to which they are subject. Rather than following the established pattern of so-called global novels, which crisscross the planet exhibiting a knowing cosmopolitanism, Ishiguro's fictional engagement with the world comes principally in the form of characters who are cut off from the global systems that abuse them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy examining the ways in which Ishiguro foregrounds the in-process thinking of those who fail to comprehend their place in the flow of politics, culture, and ideas, Holmes positions Ishiguro as the great chronicler of everyday lives, and as such, prepares a mode of reading world literature that questions the assumptions for how we live and think with others when each of us is deeply limited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Holmes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Literatures as World Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501388422","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311331934345,"sku":"9781501388422","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_11f5bd83-4dbf-4222-8148-2881688deb7a.jpg?v=1738052859","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/kazuo-ishiguro-against-world-literature-9781501388422","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}