@article{Sloan_2019, title={Donors of the Floating World: The Dystopian Livelihoods of Ishiguro’s Clones and Yoshiwara Courtesans}, volume={6}, url={https://openjournals.bsu.edu/dlr/article/view/2773}, DOI={10.33043/DLR.6.0.130-146}, abstractNote={<p>The text <em>Never Let Me Go</em> envisions dystopianism through the eyes of a group that is simultaneously<br>subjugated and compensated by class structures. Due to the synchronous glorifcation and<br>euphemization of their oppression, the fate of these characters ties historical threads to the<br>livelihoods of Yoshiwara courtesans in Edo Japan. These parallels are drawn from historical<br>and sociological lenses, inspired by scholars Cecilia Segawa Seigle and Kelly Rich on courtesan<br>life and environmental infuence.This dichotomy between perception and reality is born from the<br>subjective nature of what it means to be educated and cultured. The relativity of privilege is then<br>is weaponized by those in power, who ensure that both marginalized groups internalize their class<br>and grow complicit in their own exploitation. In light of these parallels, the fuidity between utopian<br>and dystopian livelihoods manifests, and therein seeps beyond the literary realm.</p>}, journal={Digital Literature Review}, author={Sloan, Marisa}, year={2019}, month={Jan.}, pages={130–146} }