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Cadavers, Transactions and Birth of Knowledge: Scanning Disposable Bodies in Padmanabhan's Harvest and the Visible Human Project
Asijit Datta
The Heritage College
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<p>This paper attempts to read Manjula Padmanabhan’s play Harvest under the humanist scanner of the<br>
Visible Human Project (VHP). The VHP not only dilutes the distinction between living and non-living<br>
bodies, the project in turn metamorphoses human substance into bio-graphics. Appropriating the bodies<br>
of the not-fully-humans and converting them into medical offerings and sacrificial objects are aspects<br>
visible both in the field of VHP and the ever-expanding arena of organ ‘donation’. However,<br>
Padmanabhan’s text destroys the myth of the renouncing, surrendering woman submitting her (dead)<br>
body for the greater good of society through the libidinal, uncontrollable, interrogating body of Jaya.</p>
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2020-03-17
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postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies ISSN: 2456-7507
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