Transplantation Gothic

Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine

Sara Wasson

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Manchester University Press
01 October 2020

Film & movie: styles & genres; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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.

By: Sara Wasson
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
ISBN: 9781526132864
ISBN 10: 1526132869
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 October 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 -- .

Sara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University