Klara and the Sun: Female Cyborgs in a Posthuman Perspective

Abstract

Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro's first full-length novel after winning the Nobel Prize. The novel chronicles the unique life of Klara, a girl AF (Artificial Friend)., from her first point of view. The book is divided into three main sections:1) regarding what she sees in the window;2) her entry into Josie's life; 3) her tragic end after Josie goes off to college. This paper will analyze the relationships between the novel and posthuman feminism by means of textual analysis from three perspectives: posthuman and posthumanism, feminism in the absence of male characters in the novel, and the dilemmas and future directions faced by posthuman feminism. Therefore, this paper will explore posthumanism, the connection between feminism and fiction, and also the future direction of posthuman feminism. The main contribution of this paper is that it will broaden the scope of posthuman feminism in Kazuo Ishiguro's literary works.