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...

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Main Author:	Trott, Emma
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Nature 2024
Subjects:	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
Online Access:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92126
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