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  title info:
    title: Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels
  name:
    name part: Johnston, Justin Omar.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 187 p. 6 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Justin Omar Johnston.
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-21st century
  subject:
    topic: Technology in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary Literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature and Technology/Media
  classification: PN3311-3503
  classification: 809.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
  identifier: 9783030262570
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26257-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 191001
    record change date: 20191220130554.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-26257-0