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Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds

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Genomic technologies have had a profound impact on understandings of what it means to be human and our links to the world we inhabit, and on practices of inhabiting the world. This open access book considers this impact across a range of literary forms, cultural practices, and political imaginaries, and argues that new descriptions of biological value introduced through practices of genomic sequencing from the late 1970s registered a broader crisis of narrative form. Examining a wide range of texts by Doris Lessing, Samuel Delany, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Kir Bulychev, Kazuo Ishiguro, Saidiya Hartman, Yaa Gyasi, Svetlana Alexievich, and Jeff VanderMeer, Narrative in the Age of the Genome casts new light on the intersections of genomics with politics of racism, sexuality, labour and gender, neoliberal economics and environmental crisis.

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Series Title

Explorations in Science and Literature

Call Number

RD 809.38762 Cho n

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic., 2021

Collation

xiv + 213 pp.; 13,5 x 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781350102552

Classification

809.38762

Content Type

digital text

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Edition

1st ed.

Subject(s)

biology
Science

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Statement of Responsibility

Lara Choksey

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