{"product_id":"transplantation-gothic-tissue-transfer-in-literature-film-and-medicine-paperback","title":"Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Wasson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransplantation 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book 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 studied 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 'slow violence' (Rob Nixon), precarity, and structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. Gothic tropes, intertextualities and narrative conventions are used in life writing to express the affective and conceptual challenges of post-transplant being and used in medical writing to manage the ambiguities of hybrid bodies, as a 'clinical necropoetics'. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Works discussed include nineteenth-century Gothic, early twentieth-century fiction and film, 1970s American hospital organ-theft horror in literature and film, turn-of-the-millennium fiction and film of organ sale, postmillennial science fiction dystopias, life writing, and scientific writing from the nineteenth century to the present. Throughout, Gothic representations engage contemporary debates around the management of chronic illness, the changing economics of healthcare, and the biopolitics of organ procurement and transplantation - the strange times and weird spaces of tissue mobilities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTransplantation Gothic will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities, and cultural studies of transplantation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47473230905522,"sku":"9781526171719","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/804ac736ca007bc70f600606960c9e0d.webp?v=1779124787","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/transplantation-gothic-tissue-transfer-in-literature-film-and-medicine-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}