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OverviewTransplantation 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sara WassonPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm ISBN: 9781526132864ISBN 10: 1526132869 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 01 October 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 -- .Reviews'...a watershed moment in the history of medical Gothic.' Fantastika Journal -- . Author InformationSara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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