Un-belonging and death vanished by storytelling: Ishiguro's Kathy H. as a dystopian scheherazade

Abstract

Throughout this article the figure of Kathy H., protagonist of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, is going to be presented as a replication of Scheherazade, adapting the trope of the storyteller to her dystopian and postcolonial context in a narration that explores the diverse roles of narratives in our lives. They serve to create a sense of individual and communal identity; constructing and shaping our past, our dreams and hopes; enabling us to recover all that we have lost and, especially, to communicate our experiences and survive in the memories of others.