The Margin Without Centre

The title of this volume illustrates the significance of margins and the instability of demarcation in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro. The author approaches Ishiguro’s writings as a corpus rather than separate units, examining the novels to illuminate their generic, theoretical or stylistic affiliations. The chapters attend to seemingly peripheral elements – trivial details, incoherent conversations, hackneyed notions, minor characters and everyday occurrences – in order to expose what is deliber