by Spanier Michèle
My thesis, “Socially dead but biologically alive: Reading the Slave, the Handmaid and the Clone as Agambian Bare Life”, focuses on the experiences of the disenfranchised main characters in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. It analyses the connection between (the treatment of) the racialised (Beloved), the conceivable (The Handmaid’s Tale) and the cloned (Never Let Me Go) body in the...