Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

by Justin Omar Johnston

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030262596
• ISBN13: 9783030262594
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"