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Reading Kazuo Ishiguro in Times of Crisis

English Studies, 2022
International 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,
Dominic Dean
exaly   +4 more sources

“Just Fabric”: The Becoming Black of the (Post)Human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021)

Sillages Critiques, 2022
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), Klara is an AF (Artificial Friend), one among a range of humanoid automatons manufactured with the objective of keeping affluent, genetically augmented teenagers company.
Agnibha Banerjee
exaly   +3 more sources

Testimonies of absence: Trauma and forgetting in The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Crossroads A Journal of English Studies, 2016
In their Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History, Felman and Laub associate the trauma narrative with a gap or omission: “The victim’s narrative – the very process of bearing witness to massive trauma – does indeed begin
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
exaly   +3 more sources

High-resolution and high-sensitivity X-ray ptychographic coherent diffraction imaging using the CITIUS detector. [PDF]

J Synchrotron Radiat, 2023
High‐resolution and high‐sensitivity X‐ray ptychographic coherent diffraction imaging is demonstrated using a CITIUS high‐speed X‐ray image detector.Ptychographic coherent diffraction imaging (PCDI) is a synchrotron X‐ray microscopy technique that provides high spatial resolution and a wide field of view.
Takahashi Y, Abe M, Uematsu H, Takazawa S, Sasaki Y, Ishiguro N, Ozaki K, Honjo Y, Nishino H, Kobayashi K, Hiraki TN, Joti Y, Hatsui T.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Surgery for Older Cancer Patients: Cross-Organ Review and Good Practice Statement by the Japanese Geriatric Oncology Guideline Committee. [PDF]

Ann Gastroenterol Surg
We conducted a cross‐organ review of surgical outcomes in older cancer patients based on literature cited in Japanese clinical guidelines. This study summarizes postoperative complication rates and survival outcomes across five major cancer types. The findings aim to support the development of geriatric oncology surgical guidelines tailored to Japan's ...
Tanaka C, Ofuchi T, Ninomiya K, Inoue D, Sugimoto K, Murofushi K, Okuyama T, Watanuki S, Imamura C, Sakai D, Sakurai N, Watanabe K, Tamura K, Saeki T, Ishiguro H.   +14 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Smoking and drinking habits relating to development of ulcerative colitis in Japanese: A multicenter case-control study. [PDF]

JGH Open, 2023
The present multicenter case‐control study using incident (new) cases of UC showed a higher OR for UC among ex‐smokers and ex‐drinkers. Our findings suggest the need for careful attention for UC onset in heavy smokers who quit smoking before 40 years old and in heavy drinkers who quit drinking at or after 40 years old.
Kondo K, Ono Y, Ohfuji S, Watanabe K, Yamagami H, Watanabe M, Nishiwaki Y, Fukushima W, Hirota Y, Suzuki Y, Japanese Case‐Control Study Group for Ulcerative Colitis.   +10 more
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Umani, androidi, divinità. I simulacri di Kazuo Ishiguro

Between, 2022
Il contributo si propone di analizzare Klara and the Sun, romanzo di Kazuo Ishiguro che racconta la storia dell’eponima Klara, androide incaricata di prendersi cura di una bambina malata.
Giulio Milone
doaj   +1 more source

Persona in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
This article studies the archetype of the persona in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day (1989). It deals with the journey that the protagonist Mr. Stevens takes through the unconscious in search of his real self, in which his true persona is revealed.
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Assil GHARIRI   +1 more
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Social Change and Social Standing in the Novels Things Fall Apart from Chinua Achebe and The Remains of the Day from Kazuo Ishiguro – Part II.

Journal on European History of Law, 2021
The following text deals with the topic social change and social standing in the novels Things Fall Apart from Chinua Achebe and The Remains of the Day from Kazuo Ishiguro. Both authors describe the change in parts of the Nigerian rather English society
Kerstin Rupp
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KAZUO ISHIGURO’S GESTURAL POETICS

English Studies, 2021
Through readings of Ishiguro’s repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of ‘imaginary’ space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which ...
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