Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English

The Editors: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Salzburg and Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre Metamorphic Changes in the Arts. She is the author of several books. Current projects include the literary fantastic, life-course models in literature, and cultural infrastructures.Marta Fernández Morales, Ph.D., teaches North American Literature and 20th-century Theatre at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). She is the author of four books and has published articles on gender issues in theatre, film, and television.

• Contents: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner/Marta Fernández Morales: Introduction: The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English – Milada Franková: An Icon and a Burden: The Postmodern Obsession with the Body in British Fiction – Ellen Grünkemeier: «I am not dying of AIDS. I am living with AIDS.» Representations of the Body and HIV/AIDS in South African Literature – Ilana Shiloh: The Body as Obsession: Starving, Writing and the Sign of Endless Deferral – Alejandra Moreno Álvarez: The Other Voice of the Anorectics: Examples from Contemporary British Fiction – Sarah Herbe: The Genetic Perspective of the Human Body in British Science Fiction Literature – Arnold Leitner: Designing Geeks: Liberal Eugenics and Life Plans – Pierpaolo Martino: The Body and the Machine: Hari Kunzru’s «Bodywork» – Paloma Fresno-Calleja: «Creatures of Water»: Dis/embodying Racialised and Gendered Identities in Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child – Julia Round: Mutilation and Monsters: Transcending the Human in Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon’s Preacher – Anna Kérchy: Bodies That Do Not Fit: Sexual Metamorphoses, Re-embodied Identities and Cultural Crisis in Contemporary Transgender Memoirs – Laura Monrós Gaspar: Spreaking Bodies: The Myth of Echo in Contemporary Literature – Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia: «I am just myself - myself separately»: the Gogolian Construction of Masculinity in Hanif Kureishi’s «The Penis» and Katherine Vaz’s «The Journey of the Eyeball» – Andreea Şerban: Eye-in’ the Body: Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and The Handmaid’s Tale, and Sarah Hall’s The Electric Michelangelo.