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Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels/ by Justin Omar Johnston.
Author:	Johnston, Justin Omar.
Description:	IX, 187 p. 6 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Fiction. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26257-0
ISBN:	9783030262570

Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels
Johnston, Justin Omar.

Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels[electronic resource] /by Justin Omar Johnston. - 1st ed. 2019. - IX, 187 p. 6 illus.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6435. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,.

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.

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. .

ISBN: 9783030262570

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