Eva Pelayo Sanudo

Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

The Alternative Dystopian Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

It deals with innovative methods of reading Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go by using an intersectional perspective of the identity categories of class, gender and race. It also concentrates on new forms of representing dystopic settings by de-centering the role of the urban space in environmental criticism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 66
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032870533
• ISBN-10: 1032870532
• Artikelnr.: 71743618

Autorenporträt

Eva Pelayo Sañudo holds a PhD in gender and diversity from the University of Oviedo and currently teaches at the University of Cantabria (Spain). Her fields of research are American literature, ethnic, gender and postcolonial studies. Her monography Spatialities in Italian American Women's Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets (2021) has been awarded several prizes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Kazuo Ishiguro's Writing and his "Intimate Dystopia" Never
Let Me Go
Chapter 1. Gendered Capitalism: A Critical Analysis of Educational,
Economic and Cultural Systems
The Value of Bodies: Sports, Health and Chastity
Spatial Segregation and Dehumanization
The Ethics of Caring as a (Feminist) Utopia
Chapter 2. Ecocriticism: "Environmental Dystopias" and the Post-Pastoral
Unsettling Environments in Environmental Dystopianism
Hailsham and Beyond: Discovering (the Limits of) a "Phantasy Land"
Chapter 3. Looking for Hope: The Role of Love and Art, and Other Religious
Undertones of Redemption
Something to Go On: Deferrals
'Your Art Will Display your Souls!
A Road to Salvation: Religion, Determinism and Free Will
Chapter 4. "Speculative Memoir": Blending Autobiography and Science Fiction
Memory, Identity and Writing: Generic Approaches to Interpret Never Let Me
Go
The (De)Formation of Identity in Never Let Me Go: Representing Trauma and
Nostalgia
Index