Transplantation is a boundary practice unsettling distinctions between self and other, life and death. This book identifies a Gothic mode in representations of the practice in literature, film and science from the nineteenth century to the present, considering hybrid bodies and precarious lives under neoliberal late capitalism. -- .
Transplantation is a boundary practice unsettling distinctions between self and other, life and death. This book identifies a Gothic mode in representations of the practice in literature, film and science from the nineteenth century to the present, considering hybrid bodies and precarious lives under neoliberal late capitalism. -- .
Sara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: bodies dis(re)membered: Gothic and the transplant imaginary 1 Clinical necropoetics: medical and ethics writing of death and transplantation 2 The bioemporium: corporate medical horror in late twentieth century American transfer fiction 3 Clinical labour and slow violence: transnational harvest horror and racial vulnerability at the turn of the millennium 4 Possession? Uncanny assemblage and embodied scripts in tissue recipient horror 5 Scalpel and metaphor: 'machines of social death' and state sanctioned harvest in dystopian fiction Coda: writing wounds Index
Introduction: bodies dis(re)membered: Gothic and the transplant imaginary 1 Clinical necropoetics: medical and ethics writing of death and transplantation 2 The bioemporium: corporate medical horror in late twentieth century American transfer fiction 3 Clinical labour and slow violence: transnational harvest horror and racial vulnerability at the turn of the millennium 4 Possession? Uncanny assemblage and embodied scripts in tissue recipient horror 5 Scalpel and metaphor: 'machines of social death' and state sanctioned harvest in dystopian fiction Coda: writing wounds Index
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