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Traumatic Memories in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
GONG Yan-ling
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2021.02.003
Wuhan University of Technology, Hubei Wuhan, China, 430070
Kazuo Ishiguro, a renowned Japanese-British writer, is the winner of the Novel Prize for Literature. The novel Never Let Me Go is a science fiction about human cloning and tells the tragic experience of cloning groups. Kathy, a narrator and protagonist in the story, wrote memories of individual clones and collective clones trauma. She not only witnessed various individual traumas of herself and her friends, but also expressed the cultural trauma of the clones through writing. From the perspective of trauma theory, it can be found that traumatic memories can vent and relieve personal pain, construct collective cultural trauma, and then convey individual’s responsibility for the collective disaster.
Never Let Me Go, cloning groups, individual trauma, collective cultural trauma
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