Sara Wasson

Transplantation Gothic (eBook, ePUB)

Tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526132888
• Artikelnr.: 60358038

Autorenporträt

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