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Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds

Choksey, Lara; (2021) Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds. Explorations in Science and Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

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.

Type: Book
Title: Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds
ISBN-13: 9781350102545
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/narrative-in-the-age...
Language: English
Additional information: This work is published open access subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). You may re-use, distribute, and reproduce this work in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182144
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