Post/Human Perfectibility and the Technological Other in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun.
This article seeks to examine the issue of mastery in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (2021). While most of Ishiguro's earlier works engage with the fantasy of the "master race," his latest novel shifts the emphasis from human attempts to master other humans to human attempts to master nonhumans....
| Publicado en: | Critique Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 504 - 512 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023
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