“HOW THINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE”: RHETORIC, EDUCATION, AND MOTIVE IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO
“HOW THINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE”: RHETORIC, EDUCATION, AND MOTIVE IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO
Author(s): Debra JournetSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Bakhtin, M. M.; Burke; Kenneth; Ishiguro, Kazuo; language; identity; ideology
Summary/Abstract: In Never Let Me Go, those in power patrol identity by exploiting the ambiguity between humans as agents and agency. This ambiguity enables an ideology that defines some humans as tools for others’ use, and a rhetoric that overwhelms possibilities for action by those victimized.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 61-68
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English