Ryder Meets Bourriaud. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and the contradictions of "Creative Capitalism"

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dc.contributor.authorGarrido Castellano, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-10T12:17:44Z
dc.date.available2020-01-10T12:17:44Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-08
dc.date.updated2020-01-10T12:10:39Z
dc.description.abstractKazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled (1995) has been interpreted from multiple perspectives, with some critics highlighting the psychoanalytical and oneiric side of the novel while others focus on spatial and social elements. Engaging with all of these approaches, in this article I argue that Ishiguro’s fourth novel is eloquent of the main shifts in 1990s esthetics and cultural production. More specifically, in Ryder, the main character of The Unconsoled, it is possible to identify a relational artist who invests in dialogical exchange and social collaboration as creative strategies. From this perspective, I relate The Unconsoled to the emergence of relational esthetics and the so-called “social turn” in contemporary art. At the same time, however, I identify in The Unconsoled an interest in questioning the principles of contemporary collaborative artistic practices, defining consolation and social engagement as the complex yet unavoidable horizon of contemporary cultural production.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationGarrido Castellano, C. (2020) 'Ryder Meets Bourriaud. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled and the Contradictions of “Creative Capitalism”', Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 61(2), pp. 236-247. doi: 10.1080/00111619.2019.1689910en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00111619.2019.1689910en
dc.identifier.endpage247en
dc.identifier.issn0011-1619
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCritique: Studies In Contemporary Fictionen
dc.identifier.startpage236en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9484
dc.identifier.volume61en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.uri10.1080/00111619.2019.1689910
dc.rights© 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction on 08 Nov 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00111619.2019.1689910en
dc.subjectCollaborative aestheticsen
dc.subjectCultural productionen
dc.subjectIshiguro, Kazuoen
dc.subjectRelational arten
dc.subjectWelfare state [literary story of]en
dc.subjectVisual artsen
dc.subjectCloneen
dc.subjectFictionen
dc.subjectNarrativeen
dc.titleRyder Meets Bourriaud. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and the contradictions of "Creative Capitalism"en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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