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After such Knowledge what Forgiveness: Confessional Narratives by Kazuo Ishiguro

Author(s): Krystyna Stamirowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: human sciences; psychological dimension; trauma; Kazuo Ishiguro; narratives

Summary/Abstract: Apart from psychological dimension and social and political contexts of trauma, studied by the human sciences, contemporary writers have been long preoccupied with the nature of traumatic experience and its place within contemporary reality. This renewed interest has been to a large extent generated by the events of the twentieth and the early twenty-fi rst century when a gap between the progress of science with its concomitant technological development and human potential for savagery reached hitherto unknown dimensions.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 147-158
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English