Unreliable Physical Places and Memories as Posthuman Narration in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
In this paper, I argue that Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is best understood through analysis of its unstable places and the narrator’s unstable memory. Through these devices, Ishiguro constructs a panoptic state of surveillance, transforming an otherwise non-urban space into a pseudo-cityscape. It i...
Main Author: | Megan E Cannella |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ratnabali Publisher
2017-04-01
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Series: | Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry |
Online Access: | http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/144 |
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