Name: Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine
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Author: Sara Patricia Wasson
ISBN: 9781526132864

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Patricia Wasson

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781526132864

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

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.