| Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine Contributor(s): Wasson, Sara (Author) |
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ISBN: 1526132869 ISBN-13: 9781526132864 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - General |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |