Posthuman capital and biotechnology in contemporary novels. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Justin Omar Johnston.
• Authors: Johnston, Justin Omar
• Contents: Chapter One: Introduction: The Biotech Century, Human Capital, and Genre From the 'Biotech Century' to 'Biology is Technology' Be More Human and Human Capital Theory Genres of FuturityChapter Two: Clones: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go The Disciplinary Fence Species of Discipline The Open Fence The Service Station Affect and Climate Change in 'England, late 1990s' The Litter-ary Fence Becoming Posthuman AgainChapter Three: Animal-Human Hybrids: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake The Tree of Life: Species, Evolution, and Patents ChickieNobs: Repugnance and Neoliberal Families Corporate Domesticity: Animals in Heat Corporate Domesticity: Reproduction, Maternity, and Escape Corporate Domesticity: Videos, Bodies, and the Domestic Treehouse Oryx and GenreChapter Four: Toxic Bodies: Indra Sinha's Animal's People Neo-Liberalism, Environmental Technologies, and Human Capital In the Shadow of Human Rights Tragic Accidents and Human Extras The Human Element Ambivalence: Humanism and 'Something Different'Chapter Five: Cyborgs: Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods The Stone Gods: Planet Orbus and Planet Blue Unlimited Finitude and Cyborg Feminism Unexceptional Exceptions and Easter Island The Biopolitics of Evolutionary TimeChapter Six: Coda: Genres of Futurity Genre and Bewilderment.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.93356; Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Human body and technology in literature; Biotechnology in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030262570
• Related ISBNs: 9783030262563
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