Overview: Constructs a cultural history of organ exchange.Offers extended readings of widely studied authors including William Faulkner, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Shelley, Chris Abani and H. G. Wells’s The Island of.Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions, organ transplant is a celebrated and relatively common procedure. .Transplant Fictions .brings together a diverse set of
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