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Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels
Engelsk Paperback
Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels
Engelsk Paperback

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This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro''s Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood''s Oryx and Crake, toxic bodies in Indra Sinha''s Animal''s People, and cyborgs in Jeanette Winterson''s The Stone Gods. While these works explore the transformational power of the "biotech century," they also foreground the key role human capital theory has played in framing human belonging as an aspirational category that is always and structurally just out of reach, making contemporary subjects never-human-enough. In these novels, the dystopian character of human capital theory is linked to fantasies of apocalyptic release. As such, these novels help expose how two interconnected genres of futurity (the dystopian and the apocalyptic) work in tandem to propel each other forward so that fears of global disaster become alibis for dystopian control, which, in turn, becomes the predicate for intensifying catastrophes. In analyzing these novels, Justin Omar Johnston draws attention to the entanglement of bodies in technological environments, economic networks, and deteriorating ecological settings. 


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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
187
ISBN-13:
9783030262594
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
3030262596
Udg. Dato:
14 okt 2020
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
14 okt 2020
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