Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine

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

Wasson, Sara

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1526171716
ISBN13: 9781526171719
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 21 2023
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Wasson, Sara

View All

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All