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Transplantation Gothic
Tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine
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This book will engage academics and students in Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities, and cultural studies of transplantation.
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.
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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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Winner of the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2022 and shortlisted for the British Society of Literature and Science Book Prize 2020. Critics praise Sara Wasson's work as a critical tour de force, blending medical humanities, critical theory and Gothic studies. The book delivers brilliant analyses across literary and film texts, spanning nineteenth-century British Gothic, twentieth-century American horror, and contemporary science fiction and dystopian works. It is noted for its interdisciplinary approach, combining fiction, film, scientific and life writing to reveal how the Gothic mode critiques yet is complicit in organ transplantation practices across several continents. The work is acclaimed for its political and ethical insights.
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ISBN: 9781526171719
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 March 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: 11 black & white illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 331g
Pages: 232
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Sara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University
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