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Each article looks at an intractable problem: the absent nation at the heart of transnational discourses, the propensity of humanitarian intervention to dissolve into ethical self-examination, the persistence of class consciousness in a world in which labor is increasingly "immaterial," th...

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Published in:Novel : a forum on fiction 2007-07, Vol.40 (3), p.205
Main Author: Bewes, Timothy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ethics
Fiction
Ideology
Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954- )
Novels
Nunokawa, Jeff
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Summary:Each article looks at an intractable problem: the absent nation at the heart of transnational discourses, the propensity of humanitarian intervention to dissolve into ethical self-examination, the persistence of class consciousness in a world in which labor is increasingly "immaterial," the obscenity of a liberal welfare state ideology that insists that "cruelty is bad" while perpetuating situations of unimaginable inequality-not with an eye to resolving them, but to grasping their intractabilities as those of Ishiguro's fiction itself.
ISSN:0029-5132
1945-8509