1st Edition
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go The Alternative Dystopian Imagination
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
Biography
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.
