“Not Properly Human”: Literary and Cinematic Narratives about Human HarvestingFootnote∗

1. Revised and extended version of a paper read at the XVIIIth Triannual Congress of the ICLA held from 27 July to 5 August 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference theme was “Beyond Binarisms: Discontinuities and Displacements in Comparative Literature”. In Section 4 the questions surrounding the post-human era of genetic technology as they surface in literature, cinema, and the visual arts were addressed.

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