“HOW THINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE”: RHETORIC, EDUCATION, AND MOTIVE IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO Cover Image

“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 Journet
Subject(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.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 61-68
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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