A bout two hundred years have passed, as Benedict Anderson tells the story, since novels
featuring protag-onists that mirrored their readers' norms and values first began to elicit …

As a meeting point between violence and culture, the future of testimony is guaranteed. 1
Less predictable is how we will understand its ongoing importance, especially given how …

This essay argues that Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go draws an analogy between the
lives of the clones and the experience of the racially marginalized, exposing the …

This chapter explores the role of Holocaust memory in Seven Jewish Children: A Play for
Gaza, a play by the British dramatist Caryl Churchill that powerfully bears witness to …

What is a 'public secret'? And how—if we are not party to one—are we to understand how it
works? Beginning with the Holocaust and turning to a work of fiction, this chapter aims to …

In one of his Treatises on Government, John Locke stated that «every Man has a Property in
his own Person». The complex articulation of this apparently matter-of-fact argument has …

My thesis examines the narratees of three novels by Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating
World, The Remains of the Day, and Never Let Me Go. In each novel, a first person narrator …

The utopian genre is a perplexing one. Utopian literature is largely unappreciated outside of
the field of utopian studies, yet utopian works continue to reemerge new and ever resonate …