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科图分类法:
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I712.074/ 版次： |
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I712.074 版次： |
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著者:
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Johnston, Justin Omar. |
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Posthuman capital and biotechnology in contemporary novels / / , |
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出版发行:
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出版地： Cham : 出版社： Palgrave Macmillan, 出版日期： 2019. |
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载体形态:
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ix, 186 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
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内容提要:
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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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主题词:
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Fiction History and criticism. 21st century |
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主题词:
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Human body and technology in literature. |
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主题词:
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Biotechnology in literature. |
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索书号:
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I712.074/ |