Transplantation Gothic: Tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine

✍ Scribed by Sara Wasson

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 230
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Bodies dis(re)membered: Gothic and the transplant imaginary
Clinical necropoetics: medical and ethics writing of death and transplantation
The bioemporium: corporate medical horror in late twentieth-century American transfer fiction
Clinical labour and slow violence: transnational harvest horror and racial vulnerability at the turn of the millennium
Possession? Uncanny assemblage and embodied scripts in tissue recipient horror
Scalpel and metaphor: ‘machines of social death’ and state-sanctioned harvest in dystopian fiction
Coda: Writing wounds
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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