Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
What can critical animal studies learn by temporarily directing attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature? Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? allow readers to experience the hopes of engineered or artificial nonhuman creatures. Without presuming to know the unknowable or to make the animal speak, these novels help to further animal liberation discourses by democratizing the ostensibly human concept of hope, opening new paths of empathy between nonhuman and human animals while making it harder to accept the instrumentalization of nonhuman animals under anthropocentric capitalism.
DOI
10.1353/mfs.2023.a905746
Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Repository Citation
Rando, David P. “Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 69, no. 3, Sept. 2023, pp. 466–91.
Publication Information
MFS Modern Fiction Studies