Chapter 13 A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy

As cardiac xenotransplantation moves from labs into hospitals, this chapter asks what Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy reveals about power, race, and identity in relation to the experimental therapy. Common heart metaphors are analyzed to ask how the xenograft shapes the teenage pr...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques

Auteur principal:	Trott, Emma
Format:	Online
Langue:	anglais
Publié:	Springer Nature 2024
Sujets:	Malorie Blackman’s; young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy; power; race; identity; experimental therapy; xenotransplantation thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
Accès en ligne:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92126
Tags:	Ajouter un tag Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!