Dominic Dean
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Dean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Dean |
| SIGNATURE | DEAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research and Enterprise Services, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6768-9944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The English Studies Interview with David Szalay
The English Studies Interview with Melissa Harrison
The English Studies Interview with Alan Hollinghurst
Migration Crisis and Conspiracy in Kazuo Ishiguro
Migration and its crises constitute an insistent theme in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction, where – as in real recent history – the politics of migration have a dangerously close relationship with conspiracy narratives. At the heart of such narratives lies the fetishised ideal of the organic, original home and “homeland”: conspiracist paranoia is bound up in desire for epistemological security, responding to the traumatic rifts that migrations expose in …
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro in Times of Crisis
International crises are central to Kazuo Ishiguro's work. This introduction situates Ishiguro alongside contemporary global emergencies, including the COVD-19 pandemic, climate change, and reactions to emancipatory movements. It suggests that Ishiguro's work interrogates ‘crisis' by confronting his characters with both individual and collective crises, a theme explored in Catherine Charlwood's essay here. It shows how Ishiguro's work indirectly …
They built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties
For Kazuo Ishiguro’s characters, institutions endure as ghosts long after their original functions have ceased. Though such institutions appear in Ishiguro’s work from Japan to Shanghai to central Europe, this essay argues that Ishiguro’s English institutions register his subtle yet deeply-rooted critique of the British state’s particular modern crises, exposing its attempts to replace political plurality and historical contingency with an essent…
Violent authenticity
Kazuo Ishiguro’s work explores acute anxieties towards the human and material objects – from dead bodies to artworks – that circulate in a globalised world and seem to threaten its future. Tracing these objects alongside the images through which Ishiguro’s characters attempt to navigate from compromised pasts into complicated futures, this article develops a new reading across Ishiguro’s narratives of globalisation, migration, and mass production…
Ishiguro and the abandoned child
Returning to Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel When We Were Orphans (2000) from a current period of crisis in international responsibilities, the abandoned child at the novel’s centre gains renewed significance. Here, as in modern history, this child is peculiarly effective in activating such responsibilities, apparently transcending national borders. Reading Orphans through Ishiguro’s persistent engagements with international crises and his reception as a …
On tyranny
Never Again: the mantra of historical memory and moral commitment after the twentieth century’s totalitarian disasters. But when is this transformed from memorialising abstraction into immediate personal - or professional - imperative? Does ‘Never Again’ represent, in politician-speak, ‘our values’; or is it our responsibility
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On tyranny
Never Again: the mantra of historical memory and moral commitment after the twentieth century’s totalitarian disasters. But when is this transformed from memorialising abstraction into immediate personal - or professional - imperative? Does ‘Never Again’ represent, in politician-speak, ‘our values’; or is it our responsibility
Ishiguro and the abandoned child
Returning to Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel When We Were Orphans (2000) from a current period of crisis in international responsibilities, the abandoned child at the novel’s centre gains renewed significance. Here, as in modern history, this child is peculiarly effective in activating such responsibilities, apparently transcending national borders. Reading Orphans through Ishiguro’s persistent engagements with international crises and his reception as a …
Violent authenticity
Kazuo Ishiguro’s work explores acute anxieties towards the human and material objects – from dead bodies to artworks – that circulate in a globalised world and seem to threaten its future. Tracing these objects alongside the images through which Ishiguro’s characters attempt to navigate from compromised pasts into complicated futures, this article develops a new reading across Ishiguro’s narratives of globalisation, migration, and mass production…
Migration Crisis and Conspiracy in Kazuo Ishiguro
Migration and its crises constitute an insistent theme in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction, where – as in real recent history – the politics of migration have a dangerously close relationship with conspiracy narratives. At the heart of such narratives lies the fetishised ideal of the organic, original home and “homeland”: conspiracist paranoia is bound up in desire for epistemological security, responding to the traumatic rifts that migrations expose in …
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro in Times of Crisis
International crises are central to Kazuo Ishiguro's work. This introduction situates Ishiguro alongside contemporary global emergencies, including the COVD-19 pandemic, climate change, and reactions to emancipatory movements. It suggests that Ishiguro's work interrogates ‘crisis' by confronting his characters with both individual and collective crises, a theme explored in Catherine Charlwood's essay here. It shows how Ishiguro's work indirectly …
They built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties
For Kazuo Ishiguro’s characters, institutions endure as ghosts long after their original functions have ceased. Though such institutions appear in Ishiguro’s work from Japan to Shanghai to central Europe, this essay argues that Ishiguro’s English institutions register his subtle yet deeply-rooted critique of the British state’s particular modern crises, exposing its attempts to replace political plurality and historical contingency with an essent…
The English Studies Interview with Melissa Harrison
The English Studies Interview with Alan Hollinghurst
The English Studies Interview with David Szalay
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