American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 31

Contents

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Editorial

SEAN MATTHEWS 5

“A Genuine Old-Fashioned English Butler”: Nationalism and Conservative Politics in The Remains of the Day

EMILY HORTON 11

Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” as Bildungsromane

ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER 27

The International Settlement: The Fantasy of International Writing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans

JERRINE TAN 47

Precarity as Personhood in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

ANGELA RIDINGER-DOTTERMAN 65

“Stop … and Remember”: Memory and Ageing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels

CATHERINE CHARLWOOD 86

Reading Never Let Me Go from the Mujo Perspective of Buddhism

RIA TAKETOMI 114

Narrating Migration and Trauma in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills

LJUBICA MATEK 129

Book Reviews 147

Thomas C. Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era.

GABRIEL GHERASIM 148

Tim Kendall, ed., Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology.

ANAMARIA ENESCU 155

Notes on Contributors 158

Call for Papers 161