Two–World Literature – Kazuo Ishiguro′s Early Novels Suter Hardback

Two-World LiteratureKazuo Ishiguros Early Novels\nAuthor(s): Rebecca Suter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824882372, 978-0824882372\nSynopsis\nIn 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 significa.