03721nam 22006375 450 991048445670332120230810165317.03-030-26257-X10.1007/978-3-030-26257-0(CKB)4100000009382613(DE-He213)978-3-030-26257-0(MiAaPQ)EBC5915702(Au-PeEL)EBL5915702(OCoLC)1122462300(EXLCZ)99410000000938261320191001d2019 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPosthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels /by Justin Omar Johnston1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (IX, 187 p. 6 illus.) Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-64433-030-26256-1 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. .Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443FictionLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryLiterature and technologyMass media and literatureFiction LiteratureContemporary LiteratureLiterature and TechnologyFiction.Literature, Modern20th century.Literature, Modern21st century.Literature and technology.Mass media and literature.Fiction Literature.Contemporary Literature.Literature and Technology.809.3051809.93356Johnston Justin Omar1226155MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484456703321Posthuman capital and biotechnology in contemporary novels2846942UNINA