Considering Counter-Narratives: An Exploration of Gothic Representations of Organ Transplantation in Literature
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Millo, Lorena
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Abstract
- Producing a combination of curiosity, anxiety, fear, and celebration, organ transplantation has generated a plethora of literature due to its persistent ability to fascinate and perplex people. This thesis seeks to examine gothic counter-narratives that resist the dominant metaphors and trends in medical transplant commentary. These stories constitute the often unseen and unspoken tales in circulation about the meaning and experience of organ transplantation in US culture. Unlike the multitude of firstperson narratives that one finds on transplantation websites, all of which seem to participate in a single overarching narrative of recovery and restitution through transplantation, the stories I examine write against this prescriptive form and speak to the underlying anxieties produced by a procedure that reconfigures the biological boundaries between bodies and conjures up vivid associations and rearticulations of the relationship between the self and the other (UNOS).
- Date of publication
- spring 2017
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Thrailkill, Jane
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Academic concentration
- English
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2017
- Language
- English
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