Abstract
Every community demands sacrifices from individuals within it, and sometimes such sacrifices can be extreme. To experience harm related to this sort of sacrifice is to be in a state of grievance. Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel Never Let Me Go offers readers a compelling fictional account of severe grievance experienced by its narrator-protagonist and other clones destined to die young when donating their organs to non-clone, or "normal," members of their community. By presenting radically aggrieved clones as visibly indistinguishable from the "normals," Ishiguro dramatically challenges traditional understandings of the state of grievance and compels readers to re-examine their own reactions when confronting the spectacle of grievance.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 421-440 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 2017 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Keywords
- Class
- Ethics
- Grievance
- Ishiguro
- Monstrosity