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COMMITMENT INGRAINED IN LOSS

COMMITMENT INGRAINED IN LOSS

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Commitment Ingrained in Loss: Subjugation, Dislocation and Trauma in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro offers a profound exploration of memory, trauma, identity, and displacement in Ishiguro's fiction. Through close readings of A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant, When We Were Orphans, and The Unconsoled, this study reveals how unreliable narrators, fractured recollections, and silences expose the ethical ambiguities of history and selfhood. Drawing on psychoanalysis, trauma theory, postcolonial critique, and feminist thought, it examines how Ishiguro's restrained voices grapple with grief, repression, and estrangement. Positioning him as a novelist of quiet radicalism, the book affirms that remembering-however painful-is essential to confronting complicity, sustaining identity, and imagining reconciliation in a world scarred by loss.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
330
Release Date:
2026-02-02
Publication Date:
2026-02-02
Publisher:
BLACK EAGLE BOOKS
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1645608360
ISBN13:
9781645608363
Weight:
467 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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