Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

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 Ind...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Johnston, Justin Omar (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
Σειρά:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Chapter One: Introduction: The Biotech Century, Human Capital, and Genre -- Chapter Two: Clones: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- Chapter Three: Animal-Human Hybrids: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- Chapter Four: Toxic Bodies: Indra Sinha's Animal's People -- Chapter Five: Cyborgs: Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods -- Chapter Six: Coda: Genres of Futurity. 
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