NLMG context Flashcards
(25 cards)
Dolly the sheep
first successful mammalian cloning
5
Age of Ishiguro when he moved from Japan to UK
1996
The year the Dolly was successfully cloned.
Stem Cell Research
The process of farming cells to construct organs for donation or therapeutic use.
Ethics
The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.
Nagasaki
City where Ishiguro was born in 1954.
Dual nationality
Ishiguro has dual nationality of Japan and the UK. Does this allow him to view both cultures from the outside and provide him with a keen observation of what it means to belong?
Frankenstein
Novel written in 1818 by Mary Shelley in which the protagonist uses scientific experimentation to create a ‘creature’.
Remains of the Day
Novel written by Ishiguro in 1989 based on the memories of the butler of a grand house.
Booker Prize
Literary prize awarded annually for the best piece of orginal fiction. Won by Ishiguro for his 1989 novel ‘The Remains of the Day’.
The Handmaids Tale
Dystopian Novel by Margaret Attwood in which reproduction is controlled by the state.
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher who considered the concept of the Other - the Outsider.
2005
Year in which Never Let Me Go was published.
March 2005
UN non binding agreement called for a ban on human cloning.
Concentration Camps
Places of imprisonment in WW2. Images of barbed wire in Never Let Me Go allude to these.
1984
Novel by George Orwell with some similar features to Never Let Me Go: conditioning/brainwashing and obedience.
Flashback
A technique which Ishiguro uses throughout his work - notably in The Remains of the Day which is told by a first person unreliable narrator (Stevens) through his memories of the past.
Positive consequences of stem cell research
Treatments can be found for life limiting diseases (Cancer, Alzheimers, Motor Neurone disease, Parkinsons).
Negative consequences of stem cell research
Who decides when life begins? Who owns an embryo?
Edinburgh
Place where Dolly was cloned.
Nobel Prize for Literature
Ishiguro won the _______ for his work.
Uncanny Valley
human replicas that look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings; causes a response of revulsion among human observers
Alternative history conceit
The phrase Ishiguro used to describe his novel being a version of Britain that might have existed by the late twentieth century if science had developed differently.
the sadness of the human condition
A phrase Ishiguro uses to describe what the novel is, at its heart, about.
