Not I - Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition

by Franziska Quabeck

'Not I - Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition' takes a closer look at how Ishiguro's narrators deal with their metaphorical 'parents', their literary ancestors from Hamlet to Alfred Prufrock. Ishiguro's narrators unwittingly express a metafictional concern about their existence in the shadows of English literary history and struggle with an imagined pressure to compete with iconic literary characters. This book traces their narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825395677
• ISBN13: 9783825395674
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.