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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
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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
