Kazuo Ishiguro's novels are suffused with a sense of memory, nostalgia and mourning.
Memory is an area of research that continues to grow in importance within the humanities …

In the 2010s, a small number of science fiction films and television series exploring the
theme of the robot carer and how humans respond to them were released. This paper …

An emphasis on supporting and maintaining self-identity in people who have dementia for
as long as possible has gone hand in hand with the revitalisation of dementia interventions …

In the alternative world of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy must
find ways to hang on to the precious memories of their childhood. The affirmation of shared …

At the announcement of Ishiguro's 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature award, his writing was
described as having 'uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the …

This article examines the changing representation of technology in three of DeLillo's novels,
White Noise, Cosmopolis and Zero K, and traces the conceptual and philosophical …

Early on in his writing career, during the 1980s when British literature was emphatically
characterized by its multicultural attributes, Kazuo Ishiguro selfidentified as a 'writer who …

Yugin Teo I'd like to start off with When the Barbarians Arrive, your first collection published
in the UK, and I want to look at 'Candles', as I was quite moved by it. In the poem you …

When Never Let Me Go was published in 2005, Ishiguro indicated that he 'remain [ed]
fascinated by memory', and that his next challenge was to examine the themes of national …

It is perhaps just as valid to suggest that we live in nostalgic times as it is to claim that we live
in science-fictional times. The latter has been reiterated several times since Jean Baudrillard …