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Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context

By: Cynthia F. Wong,Hülya Y?ld?z

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Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context

By: Cynthia F. Wong,Hülya Y?ld?z

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguro’s evolving significance as a contemporary world author. The contributors take on a range of the aesthetic and philosophical themes that characterize Ishiguro’s work, including his exploration of the self, family, and community; his narrative constructions of time and space; and his assessments of the continuous and discontinuous forces of history, art, human psychology, and cultural formations. Significantly, the volume attends to Ishiguro’s own self-identification as an international writer who has at times expressed his uneasiness with being grouped together with British novelists of his generation. Taken together, these rich considerations of Ishiguro’s work attest to his stature as a writer who continues to fascinate cultural and textual critics from around the world.

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1317109414

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9781317109419

Kazuo Ishiguro

By: Cynthia F. Wong

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By: Cynthia F. Wong

In 2017 the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Kazuo Ishiguro, 'who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world'. Cynthia Wong's classic study first appeared in 2000 and is now updated in an expanded third edition that analyses all of Ishiguro's remarkable novels and one short story collection. From his eloquent trilogy - A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, and The Remains of the Day - to the astonishing speculative fiction, Never Let Me Go, and the ambitious fable-like story from pre-Mediaeval times, The Buried Giant, Wong appraises Ishiguro's persistently bold explorations and the narrative perspectives of his troubled characters. A compassionate author, Ishiguro examines the way that human beings reinterpret worlds from which they feel estranged. All of his works are eloquent expressions of people struggling with the silence of pain and the awkward stutters of confusion and loss. This book analyses his subtle and ironic portrayals of people in 'emotional bereavement' and it situates Ishiguro as an empathetic international writer.

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Writers and Their Work

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1786941899

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9781786941893

Outstanding: Growing Up Asian

By: Cynthia Meng

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Outstanding: Growing Up Asian

By: Cynthia Meng

Witty and humorous, even sarcastic, Cynthia Meng describes and meditates on her high school life as an Asian American. Junior year is about to start. With it come the challenges of SAT and future college applications. Cynthia, a fifteen-year-old American born Chinese, has been asked by her anxious mother to use her "good English" to write a fiction and get published so as to make herself "outstanding" to potential Ivy League admission officers. Highly skeptical and rather unwilling, Cynthia eventually yields to her mother's pressure and does indeed write a book of her own: instead of a fiction, a summer journal that delves into the real life of a typical Asian teenage high-achiever, and those surrounding her. With her fresh perspective, keen observations, smooth and witty writing skill, Cynthia touches upon some major aspects of her middle-class Asian-American family: the absurd frenzy about test scores and which college to go to, the nerve-wracking piano competitions, the pressures of a Chinese community church youth group, the psychological burden from knowing about the sacrifices made by immigrant parents, the contrast between the suburban middle-class and inner city Chinatown, and most importantly, the pervasive desire to define herself in a world of 'fobs' and white-washed Asians. Though a non-fiction narrative, it is quite captivating, sometimes delightful and comical, sometimes lovely and moving. It contains about 60,000 words and a few eye-opening documentary pictures. Cynthia Meng, an American Born Chinese, born in Evanston, IL on October 5, 1993, graduated from Campolindo High School of Moraga, CA in 2011. Cynthia Meng took her SAT in May, 2010 and had a perfect SAT score: 2400. She was the Choir President of Campolindo High School for 2010-2011. Cynthia Meng won Second Place, Senior Division, at Etude Club Young Artist Scholarship Competition 2010, for her piano performance. Cynthia Meng had received admission in 2011 to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn, Dartmouth, Northwestern, UC Berkeley and UCLA. She was a winner of National Merit Scholarship Award. Cynthia graduated from Harvard University in 2015.

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109149309X

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