Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

• Main Author: Johnston, Justin Omar (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Fiction.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Technology in literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Literature and Technology/Media.

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...

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.