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Never Let Me Go (2005): ENG 101

A list of resources available through Truxal Library for researching Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

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Recommended Secondary Sources for ENG 101 Students

Ahlberg, Jaime and Harry Brighouse. "An Argument against Cloning." Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 40, no. 4, Dec. 2010, pp. 53966. Project MUSE, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/411604.

Becht, Andrik I., et al. "The Quest for Identity in Adolescence: Heterogeneity in Daily Identity Formation and Psychosocial Adjustment across 5 Years." Developmental Psychology, vol. 52, no. 12, Dec. 2016, pp. 201021. APA PsycArticles, https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000245.

Black, Shameem. "Ishiguro's Inhuman Aesthetics." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 55, no. 4, winter 2009, pp. 785807. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1637. 

Carroll, Rachel. "Imitations of Life: Cloning, Heterosexuality and the Human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction, Edinburgh UP, 2012, pp. 13148. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgtnm.10.

Eatough, Matthew. "The Time that Remains: Organ Donation, Temporal Duration, and Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Literature and Medicine, vol. 29, no. 1, spring 2011, pp. 13260. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2011.0312. 

Gaztambide-Fernández, Rubén. "What Is an Elite Boarding School?" Review of Educational Research, vol. 79, no. 3, spring 2009, pp. 1090128. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40469090.

Martin, Andrew J., et al. "Motivation, Engagement, and Social Climate: An International Study of Boarding Schools." Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 108, no. 6, Aug. 2016, pp. 77287. APA PsycArticles, https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000086.

Paris, Joel. "Modernity and Narcissistic Personality Disorder." Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, vol. 5, no. 2, Apr. 2014, pp. 220–26. APA PsycArticles, https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028580.

Rollin, Bernard E. "Keeping up with the Cloneses: Issues in Human Cloning." The Journal of Ethics, vol. 3, no. 1, Sept. 1999, pp. 5171. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115600.

Sayers, Valerie. "Spare Parts." Commonweal, vol. 132, no. 13, 15 July 2005, pp. 2728. Academic Search Premier, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=17609829&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Shaddox, Karl. "Generic Considerations in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, May 2013, pp. 44869. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24518023.

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Additional relevant scholarly articles and book chapters available through Truxal Library’s databases:

Davidson, Michael. "Organs without Bodies: Transplant Narratives in the Global Market." Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body, U of Michigan P, 2008, pp. 197221. Project MUSE, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.aacc.edu/chapter/159420.

del Valle Alcalá, Roberto. "Servile Life: Subjectivity, Biopolitics, and the Labor of the Dividual in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Cultural Critique, vol. 102, no. 1, winter 2019, pp. 3760. Project MUSEezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/717520.

Fluet, Lisa. "Immaterial Labors: Ishiguro, Class, and Affect." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 40, no. 3, summer 2007, pp. 265–88. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40267703.

Gill, Josie. "Written on the Face: Race and Expression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 60, no. 4, winter 2014, pp. 84462. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2014.0056. 

Goh, Robbie B. H. "The Postclone-nial in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome: Science and the Body in the Asian Diaspora." ARIEL, vol. 41, no. 3-4, July-Oct. 2010, pp. 4571. Gale Academic OneFile, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/apps/doc/A266467178/AONE?u=aacc_ref&sid=AONE&xid=1109e661.

Guo, Wen. "Human Cloning as the Other in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 17, no. 5, Dec. 2015. Gale Academic OneFile, https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2728.

Ingersoll, Earl G. "Taking off into the Realm of Metaphor: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Studies in the Humanities, vol. 34, no. 1, June 2007, p. 4059. Gale Academic OneFile, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/apps/doc/A172905570/AONE?u=aacc_ref&sid=AONE&xid=ce1b6352.

Jennings, Bruce. "Biotechnology as Cultural Meaning: Reflections on the Moral Reception of Synthetic Biology." Synthetic Biology and Morality, edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray, The MIT Press, 2013, pp. 14976. Project MUSE, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.aacc.edu/chapter/964234.

Jones, Donna V. "Invidious Life." Against Life, edited by Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood, Northwestern UP, 2016, pp. 23156. Project MUSE, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.aacc.edu/chapter/1757840.

Levy, Titus. "Human Rights Storytelling and Trauma Narrative in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Journal of Human Rights, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 116. Academic Search Premier, https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2011.546242. 

Mhire, Jeremy J., and Rodolfo Hernandez. "Decency, Hope, and the Substitution of Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Political Science Reviewer, vol. 43, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 201–29. Academic Search Premier, https://login.ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=141677415&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Narkunas, J. Paul. "Reification of the Human: Global Organ Harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition, Fordham UP, 2018, pp. 22747. Project MUSE, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.aacc.edu/chapter/2122883.

Puchner, Martin. "When We Were Clones." Raritan, vol. 27, no. 4, spring 2008, pp. 34–49. MasterFILE Premier, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=31903655&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Robbins, Bruce. "Cruelty Is Bad: Banality and Proximity in Never Let Me Go." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 40, no. 3, summer 2007, pp. 289–302. MasterFILE Premier, https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040030289.

Rollins, Mark. "Caring Is a Gift: Gift Exchange and Commodification in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." CEA Critic, vol. 77, no. 3, Nov. 2015, pp. 35056. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2015.0027. 

Storrow, Richard F. "Therapeutic Reproduction and Human Dignity." Law and Literature, vol. 21, no. 2, summer 2009, pp. 257–74. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1525/lal.2009.21.2.257. 

Vichiensing, Matava. "The Othering in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Advances in Language and Literary Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Aug. 2017, pp. 12635. ERIC, files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1153509.pdf.

Tsao, Tiffany. "The Tyranny of Purpose: Religion and Biotechnology in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Literature and Theology, vol. 26, no. 2, 2012, pp. 214–32. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23927483.

Whitehead, Anne. "Writing with Care: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Contemporary Literature, vol. 52, no. 1, spring 2011, pp. 5483. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41261825.

Yan, Kai. "Posthuman Biopredicament: A Study of Biodystopia in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 9, no. 5, May 2019, p. 594692. Gale Academic OneFile, https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0905.15.

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