Transplantation Gothic: Tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine

By: Sara Wasson

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Synopsis: Winner of the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2022.Shortlisted for the British Society of Literature and Science Book Prize 2020.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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 232 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781526132888
Related ISBNs:: 9781526132871, 9781526132864
Publisher:: Manchester University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/01/24
Copyrighted By:: Sara Wasson
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.