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This essay asserts that Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go and its film adaptation present a keen criticism of the fragile conceptual foundations underpinning the premises of global citizenship education and posthumanism. Situated within the context of posthumanist thought and contemporary debates surrounding global citizenship education, this essay maintains that the portrayal of a dystopian society in the novel and the film serves as a critical allegory for proliferation of extended universal rights and citizenship and the imperatives of heteronormativity predicated upon a long-held conception of humanism and citizenship. By problematizing the abstraction of identity, agency, subjectivity, and the myth of humanism-centered education, this essay posits that the novel and the film expose the exclusionary logic and inherent impossibility underlying the discourse of global citizenship and posthumanism. Its aim is to offer a critical analysis of the predicament of global citizenship education and posthumanism in an age of expanded humanity and citizenship.
Hyunkyung Hwang (Tue,) studied this question.