Kazuo Ishiguro and the Legacy of Aspirational Individualism

Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go has, within literary scholarship, been primarily framed as a science fiction novel concerned with cloning and genetic questions of ‘the self’. This article offers a new perspective on the novel by analysing the ways in which it is also about the legacy of...

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Published in:	C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
Main Author:	Antony Mullen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2019-01-01
Subjects:	Thatcherism the self aspiration individualism Narrative
Online Access:	https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/556/

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