Transplantation Gothic

Transplantation Gothic

by Sara Wasson
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/10/2020

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Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The works explore the experience of donor/suppliers, recipients and practitioners, and simultaneously express transfer-related suffering and are complicit in its erasure. Examining texts from Europe, North America and India, the book resists exoticising predatorial tissue economies and considers fantasies of harvest as both product and symbol of structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. The book will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities and cultural studies of transplantation.

ISBN:
9781526132888
9781526132888
Category:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-10-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

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