Narrative in the age of the genome : genetic worlds /
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 book considers this impact across a range of literary forms, cultural practices, and political imaginaries, and argues...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2021.
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| Series: | Explorations in science and literature.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 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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| Item Description: | Bloomsbury Open Access. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350102569 1350102563 9781350102552 1350102555 9781350102576 1350102571 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350102576 |