Transplantation Gothic - Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Sara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Sara Wasson, Sara Patricia Wasson, Wasson Sara
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781526132864
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3286-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres