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200 1. $a Posthuman capital and biotechnology in contemporary novels $b Texte imprimé $f Justin Omar Johnston
214 .0 $a Cham $c Palgrave Macmillan
214 .4 $d C 2019
215 .. $a 1 vol. (ix, 187 pages) $c illustrations, facsimiles $d 22 cm
225 |. $a Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
300 .. $a Index
330 .. $a 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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