Bioengineering embodied subjectivity and biomedical trash mary shelley 8217 s frankenstein to kishwar desai 8217 s origins of love

Abstract

This thesis examines selected fictional representations of ethical emotional and existential anxieties triggered by developments made in the domains of bioengineering like artificial reproductive technology ART organ transplantation and human cloning The historical framework of this research is the period 1818 2012 and this study aims to examine how selected literary representations are ontologically equipped to critique conventional understandings of lived realities that are discursively