Date of Award
9-13-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
English, MA
First Advisor
Bryan Moore
Committee Members
Catherine Calloway; Marcus Tribbett
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2020 S26
Abstract
This thesis seeks to explore three different avenues of societal critique using works in Science Fiction which have as their subjects cyborgs, androids, or clones. In the thesis, I begin by addressing the unique way SF literature comments on gender politics through the use of objectified cyborgs and androids, typically with male creators and would be male masters. Following this, I explore the concept of a semiotic liminality surrounding cyborgs and androids and illustrate how that liminality complicates conceptions of what constitutes a living creature. Finally, the thesis shifts to the commodification of the cyborg where I attempt to illustrate the inevitability of capitalist implications for cybernetics.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Sanders, Wesley, "Transhuman Bodies: A Survey of Three Avenues of Societal Critique from Literature with Cyborg, Android, and Clone Subjects" (2023). Student Theses and Dissertations. 149.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/149
