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Reading Kazuo Ishiguroâs Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination aims to offer innovative perspectives for the analysis of Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguroâs oeuvre through a focus on the genre of science fiction, particularly the novel Never Let Me Go (2005). The study proposes the term intimate dystopia to reflect on the passage from totalitarian or external oppressive forces to more subtle systems of power. Its interdisciplinary approach combines, apart from literary theory on different genres such as science fiction and memory, race studies, feminism and ecocriticism. It is based on an exhaustive critical and textual analysis that allows for a thorough and nuanced understanding of Ishiguroâs multi-layered novel, covering themes such as the ethical dimensions and gender implications of caregiving, the dystopian portrayal of the environment, the significance of art in the existence of marginalized groups and the genre-related complexities o

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 11/29/2024
      ISBN13: 9781032870533, 978-1032870533
      ISBN10: 1032870532
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Book Synopsis

      Reading Kazuo Ishiguroâs Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination aims to offer innovative perspectives for the analysis of Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguroâs oeuvre through a focus on the genre of science fiction, particularly the novel Never Let Me Go (2005). The study proposes the term intimate dystopia to reflect on the passage from totalitarian or external oppressive forces to more subtle systems of power. Its interdisciplinary approach combines, apart from literary theory on different genres such as science fiction and memory, race studies, feminism and ecocriticism. It is based on an exhaustive critical and textual analysis that allows for a thorough and nuanced understanding of Ishiguroâs multi-layered novel, covering themes such as the ethical dimensions and gender implications of caregiving, the dystopian portrayal of the environment, the significance of art in the existence of marginalized groups and the genre-related complexities o

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