The posthuman condition in Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novels: Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun

Posthumanism is a new mode of understanding the concept of humans along with the inter-relationality of all species bringing forth equally shared rights among human and nonhuman agencies. Regardless of class division or marginalized others, posthumanism brings together all species at a common point such as the zoe-based subjectivity of Rosi Braidotti, the cyborg of Donna Haraway and the intra-action agency of Karen Barad to name the rhizomatic relationality and dual logic between human/nonhuman, nature/artificial, mind/body and organic/inorganic that is grounded on the classical humanism's principles. Regarding this, dystopian fictions present a perfect example of the excluded party of the binaries as in Kazuo Ishiguro's speculative dystopian novels; Never Let Me Go (2005) and Klara and the Sun (2021) where the narrators are clones and artificial intelligence offering a chance to empathize with nonhuman beings who are discarded from society and dehumanised. The purpose of their creation is to save the ruling class's lives at the cost of their lives as low-class of people are outside of privileged positions. Bearing in mind all of these statements, this thesis will track down the posthuman condition in Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun challenging the inequality between the different species. While doing this, this dissertation discusses the collapsed wall between the human, animals and machines coming up with posthuman subjectivity as a joint stakeholder. Keywords: Posthumanism, Posthuman Condition,, Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, Klara and the Sun.