Narrative in the age of the genome : : genetic worlds / / Lara Choksey.
"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Wellcome Trust. Genomic technologies have had a profound impact on understandings of what it means to be human and our links to the world we...
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| Superior document: | Explorations in science and literature |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. London [England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in Science and Literature.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) :; digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Bloomsbury Open Access. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Deindustrialisation and the selfish gene. Gene and strike ; Overpopulation and whiteness: Doris Lessing's The memoirs of a survivor brackets and choice: Samuel Delany's Trouble on triton
- Chapter 2. Cultivating dreamworlds. Mutual aid cultivating humans ; The Fifth Problem: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's Roadside picnic genogeography: Kir Bulychev's "Another's memory"
- Chapter 3. Memoir and the laboratory. Metaphors of the human genome project ; Welfare, profit, and the vitruvian man ; Ending development: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go ; Algorithmic governmentality in Andrew Niccols's Gattaca
- Chapter 4. Speculative ancestry. Ancestry making ; Genre, genetics, and genealogy ; Henrietta Lacks and stolen flesh ; Reparation, romance, and kinlessness ; Leaving: Saidiya Hartman's Lose your mother ; Staying: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
- Chapter 5. Toxic infrastructure. Chernobyl and the postgenomic condition ; Adaptation, improvisation, and epigenetics ; Mutation and fragmentation: Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl prayer ; Transitional characterisation: Jeff VanderMeer's Southern reach trilogy
- Conclusion: Disappearance, community, characterisation, genre, and scale.