Naslov
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go as a Posthumanist Dystopia

Autori
Matek, Ljubica ; Pataki, Jelena

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Essays in Honour of Boris Berić’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday: “What’s Past Is Prologue”

Urednik/ci
Buljan, Gabrijela ; Matek, Ljubica ; Oklopčić, Biljana ; Poljak Rehlicki, Jasna ; Runtić, Sanja ; Zlomislić, Jadranka

Izdavač
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Grad
Newcastle upon Tyne

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
3-20

ISBN
978-1-5275-5507-5

Ključne riječi
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, dystopia, posthumanism, transhumanism

Sažetak
The paper deals with Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel Never Let Me Go (2005), which explores the future of humanity by considering the trans- and posthumanist aspects of the story. The rapid changes in Europe’s cultural sensibilities and the strong push toward scientific and technical thought at the expense of arts and humanities call for a rereading of the novel in light of these new paradigms. Delving into the field of transhumanism, an all-encompassing improvement of intellectual, emotional, and physical capabilities of humans, and posthumanism as the critique of humanism, the novel explores the complexity of human life in a technologically advanced society that creates a new inferior cast or class of human clones for the sole purpose of harvesting organs. The ethical complexity of such a practice turns out to be too overwhelming as the society both supports it and treats it as taboo. Ultimately, the novel calls for a reconsideration of the traditional notion of what it means to be “human.”

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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