Ambiguous Care in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun
This article delves into Ishiguro’s ambiguous representation of care understood as a quality of attention paid to others but also as a potential form of recuperation of empathetic feelings by contemporary forms of material capitalism. As Ishiguro’s dystopian novels Never Let Me Go and Klara and the...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2025
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | This article delves into Ishiguro’s ambiguous representation of care understood as a quality of attention paid to others but also as a potential form of recuperation of empathetic feelings by contemporary forms of material capitalism. As Ishiguro’s dystopian novels Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun pose the question of the ethical limitations of contemporary societies’ scientific advancements by unveiling the complicities of science (including cloning and AI) with materialistically based social and political logics, they pinpoint the constant conversation of literature and the arts with our material world. The development of plot and characters in his recent novels, combined with the use of a deliberately ambiguous and limited narrative voice, serve to complexify notions of care and insert them in the material reality of our posthuman, post-anthropocentric world. Thus, Ishiguro’s novels explore the possibility of non-human care and human lack of care in the age of the Anthropocene, inducing the reader to ponder his or her relation to the materiality of the world through that of the text, and to appraise the political role of literature and the arts in our tech-savvy societies. |
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