Another Me

Heather Duerre Humann teaches in the Department of Language and Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is the author of multiple books and has contributed essays to edited collections and published articles, reviews and short stories in African American Review, Women’s Studies, South Atlantic Review and Studies in American Culture.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Monster in the MirrorSection I. Literature1. Twinning in Audrey Niffenegger’s Her Fearful Symmetry2. The Pursuit of Self? José Saramago’s The Double3. The Ethics of Cloning in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go4. Through a Machine Darkly: Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter5. Technology and the Self in Dexter Palmer’s Version Control6. Clones (and Crime) in Space: Mur Lafferty’s Six WakesSection II. Television and Film7. The Twin Formula in Ringer and The Lying Game8. The Motif of the Double in Fringe and Battlestar Galactica9. Westworld, the 21st Century Technoculture Take on Doubles10. Clones and Cultural Anxieties in Orphan Black11. Cinematic Clones in The Island and Oblivion12. Monstrous Doubling and Magical Illusion in The PrestigeConclusion: Cultural Anxieties and Doppelgangers in the 21st CenturyBibliographyIndex

“Undeniably, Humann’s book constitutes a very clairvoyant interpretation of our bourgeoning century and millennium. ...this new study of doppelganger works remains an articulate and welcome contribution that brings a truthful look at the twenty-first-century problems we face”—Interdisciplinary Literary Studies