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dc.contributor.authorGroes, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorDean, Dominic
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-20T17:11:33Z
dc.date.available2023-02-20T17:11:33Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-15
dc.identifier.citationGroes, S. and Dean, D. (2023) Reading Kazuo Ishiguro in times of crisis. English Studies, 103(7), pp. 1017-1027.en
dc.identifier.issn0013-838Xen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0013838x.2022.2159124en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/625112
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis on 15/02/2023, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2159124 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractInternational crises are central to Kazuo Ishiguro's work. This introduction situates Ishiguro alongside contemporary global emergencies, including the COVD-19 pandemic, climate change, and reactions to emancipatory movements. It suggests that Ishiguro's work interrogates ‘crisis' by confronting his characters with both individual and collective crises, a theme explored in Catherine Charlwood's essay here. It shows how Ishiguro's work indirectly relates to the vast health crisis of COVID-19, which Sebastian Groes explores in his essay on empathy, (robot) ethics, digital well-being, and inequality. Connected to the pandemic, the introduction traces how Ishiguro's writing evidences growing concern for the climate crisis. The politics of migration are a key theme in Ishiguro: here Dominic Dean explores their longstanding and dangerous relationship with conspiracy theories, while Ivan Stacy, Melinda Dabis and Richard Robinson all connect Ishiguro to anxieties over resurgent nationalisms, cosmopolitan internationalisms, and complex transnationalisms. This introduction sets out how the essays in this Special Issue collectively explore the ethical difficulties in Ishiguro's crisis narratives, their refusals of easily satisfying resolutions, and their implicit critique of crisis frameworks for understanding political and historical problems. Sharply distinct from passivity or disinterest, Ishiguro’s work elicits an attitude of humility against apparently perpetual, end-dominated crises.en
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dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2159124en
dc.subjectKazuo Ishiguroen
dc.subjecttwentieth-century British fictionen
dc.subjecttwenty-first century British fictionen
dc.subjectcrisisen
dc.subjectglobalisationen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.titleReading Kazuo Ishiguro in times of crisisen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1744-4217
dc.identifier.journalEnglish Studiesen
dc.date.updated2023-02-20T12:22:59Z
dc.date.accepted2022-10-17
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW20022023SGen
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2024-08-15en
dc.source.volume103
dc.source.issue7
dc.source.beginpage1017
dc.source.endpage1027
dc.description.versionPublished version
refterms.dateFCD2023-02-20T17:10:09Z
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