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How did Josie get better? The AI Imitatio Christi of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
- Authors
- Eckert, Kenneth
- Issue Date
- Jul-2025
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
- Keywords
- Kazuo Ishiguro; Klara and the Sun; religion in literature; religion and artificial intelligence; Christian theology; postmodern British literature
- Citation
- LITERATURE AND THEOLOGY, v.38, no.4, pp 333 - 345
- Pages
- 13
- Indexed
- AHCI
- Journal Title
- LITERATURE AND THEOLOGY
- Volume
- 38
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 333
- End Page
- 345
- ISSN
- 0269-1205
1477-4623
- Abstract
- Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (2021) has within a brief timespan been extensively analyzed for artificial intelligence or sociopolitical issues, with some studies examining the ethics of AI-mediated religious faith. Less work has shed light on Klara's peculiarly formative Christian mindset, and how her faith valorizes service, charity, and forgiveness-as well as her pseudo-imitatio of Christ in her ultimate sacrifice of her fabric/body and PEG fluid/blood for Josie, culminating in Josie's recovery "miracle." While the novel is not expressly religious, this close reading of religious imagery and symbolism deserves to be accounted for as a means of further understanding Klara from a literary studies perspective.
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- Eckert, Kenneth David
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