LEADER 03322nam 2200517 450 001 9910484456703321 005 20230817182451.0 010 $a3-030-26257-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-26257-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000009382613 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-26257-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5915702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5915702 035 $a(OCoLC)1122462300 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009382613 100 $a20210916d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPosthuman capital and biotechnology in contemporary novels /$fJustin Omar Johnston 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 187 p. 6 illus.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine 311 $a3-030-26256-1 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro?s Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood?s Oryx and Crake, toxic bodies in Indra Sinha?s Animal?s People, and cyborgs in Jeanette Winterson?s The Stone Gods. While these works explore the transformational power of the ?biotech century,? they also foreground the key role human capital theory has played in framing human belonging as an aspirational category that is always and structurally just out of reach, making contemporary subjects never-human-enough. In these novels, the dystopian character of human capital theory is linked to fantasies of apocalyptic release. As such, these novels help expose how two interconnected genres of futurity (the dystopian and the apocalyptic) work in tandem to propel each other forward so that fears of global disaster become alibis for dystopian control, which, in turn, becomes the predicate for intensifying catastrophes. In analyzing these novels, Justin Omar Johnston draws attention to the entanglement of bodies in technological environments, economic networks, and deteriorating ecological settings. . 410 0$aPalgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. 606 $aFiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body and technology in literature 606 $aBiotechnology in literature 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body and technology in literature. 615 0$aBiotechnology in literature. 676 $a809.3051 700 $aJohnston$b Justin Omar$01226155 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484456703321 996 $aPosthuman capital and biotechnology in contemporary novels$92846942 997 $aUNINA