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Critical Fictions. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 168
This work investigates the relationship between
literary fiction, particularly critical dystopian
fiction, and the broader ethical landscape opened up
by biotechnological advances and their implications.
The research questions approaches to the body and
materiality through an interdisciplinary dialogue
between feminist theories of corporeality and studies
of science, and through analysis of the fiction. Just
as the child born of the surrogate body challenges
biological and cultural boundaries, the analysis of
fiction sets up a range of questions about the merely
autonomous and individuated self and the curtailment
of heterogeneous forms of knowledge. The scholarship
discovers that agency and subjectivity, like
materiality, extend in surprising, generative and
connective ways when the new spaces in which they
develop are open to imaginative and ethical scrutiny.
Through its bringing together of literary studies,
feminist studies of corporeality and scientific
dialogues, this work develops a new,
interdisciplinary space enabling dialogue between the
cultural, the scientific and the ethical.
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