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The Lived Exemplarity of HeLa: A Matter of Lifedeath
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 48, Number 4, December 2015
- pp. 123-136
- 10.1353/mos.2015.0049
- Article
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With reference to the “immortal life” of Henrietta Lacks, this essay invokes the notion of lifedeath to name what puts into question engendering techniques and other logics of transmission, starting with forms of historiography predicated upon a caesura between past and present, corporality and personhood, death and aliveness.