Unrequited Labour of Care in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

• Published in: Women (Oxford, England) Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 370 - 389
• Main Author: Misra, Jahnavi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 02.10.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Caregivers; Duty of care; Emotional labor; emotional labour; Ethics; Ethics of care; Humanism; Ishiguro; Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954- ); Klara and the Sun; Personhood; Posthumanism; Reciprocity; selfhood

In this article, I explore questions of care and selfhood from both the humanist and post-humanist perspectives, as they play out in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun. Ishiguro's novel portrays a tragic, futuristic universe, not too different from ours. Klara is an Artificial Friend, a ro...