Transplantation Gothic by Sara Wasson
Transplantation 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. -- .Winner of the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2022
Shortlisted for the British Society of Literature and Science Book Prize 2020.
'Sara Wasson’s Transplantation Gothic is a critical tour de force. Suturing together the medical humanities, contemporary critical theory and insights gleaned from Gothic Studies, the book advances a series of brilliant readings of a broad range of literary and filmic texts, encompassing as it does so such genres and modes as nineteenth-century British Gothic fiction, twentieth-century American horror and postmillennial science fiction and dystopian writing. Resolutely interdisciplinary, it treats fiction and film alongside scientific writing and life writing, offering a truly exhilarating account of the ways in which the Gothic is, at once, critical of, and complicit in, the practice of organ transplantation in modern and contemporary Europe, North America and India. As deeply invested in its subject matter as it is, Transplantation Gothic also articulates, in the end, a political methodology and an ethical praxis that bears important implications for cultural criticism well beyond the immediate field of the Gothic. I have no doubt that this book is destined to become a landmark volume.'
Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature, Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies.
‘…a watershed moment in the history of medical Gothic.’
Fantastika Journal
'This book provides a necessary and timely intervention into (re)considering the slow violence(s) wrought upon our own bodies and communities.'
The Polyphony
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526171719 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526171716 |
| Title | Transplantation Gothic |
| Author | Sara Wasson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for British Society for Literature and Science Award 2022, Long-listed for Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2022 |
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