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Days of Past Futures: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as "Speculative Memoir"
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2007
- pp. 74-83
- 10.1353/bio.2007.0025
- Article
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This article considers Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel Never Let Me Go as a text which utilizes memoir as a means of presenting a possible future where human rights are decimated, but where human stories remain. The novel is considered as an example of an ongoing science-fictional model where life-writing acts as a window into a world where the individual's experiences guide the reader through the speculative world.