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Mutant Circuit
Jaskowski, Mark
Jaskowski, Mark
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This dissertation comprises a novel entitled Mutant Circuit and a critical introduction entitled “These Monsters are Haunting Modernism: Collective Subjectivity and Horror Fiction.” The introduction argues for a politically fecund but underdeveloped overlap between Modernist explorations of collective subjectivity and horror literature dealing with bodily transformation, and that a Marxist approach to developing this area would involve an emphasis on collective becoming to begin to redevelop revolutionary imagination beyond the strictures of prevailing capitalist realism. The introduction describes a broad potential area with which the novel is attempting to engage. In Mutant Circuit, working-class residents of a fictional Floridian college town are used as unwitting research subjects to study the effects on humans of a creature recovered from a deep-sea methane deposit, with a plasma center they are economically compelled to frequent serving as the introduction and monitoring site. The development of one test subject, Katherine, is interrupted, providing her with the opportunity to arrest and redirect the transformations inflicted on her body toward her own escape, rediscovery of herself, and—together with friends and allies—collective transformation and resistance.
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2022-08-31
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University of Kansas
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Creative writing, Literature,