Sara Wasson

Transplantation Gothic

Tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781526132864
• ISBN-10: 1526132869
• Artikelnr.: 59956833

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