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Reading in the postgenomic age : race, discipline, and bionarrativity in contemporary North American literature / Lesley Larkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larkin, Lesley, author.
- Series:
- New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mukherjee, Siddhartha. Gene.
- Mukherjee, Siddhartha.
- Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
- Skloot, Rebecca.
- Powers, Richard, 1957- Generosity.
- Powers, Richard.
- Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934- Heirs of Columbus.
- Vizenor, Gerald Robert.
- Butler, Octavia E. Fledgling.
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Troyano, Alina. Chicas 2000.
- Troyano, Alina.
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy.
- Atwood, Margaret.
- Race in literature.
- Genetic engineering in literature.
- Genomics.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 252 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Examines how 'postgenomic literature' written around the turn of the millennium (1991-2016) engages in genomic discourse, with particular attention paid to interdisciplinarity and the rearticulation of racial ideology. Covers US and Canadian writers such as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ruth Ozeki, Richard Powers, Rebecca Skloot, Alina Troyano, and Gerald Vizenor"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- To split or to lump : tracing textual metaphors in Siddhartha Mukherjee's The gene: an intimate history
- From HeLa cells to happiness genes : reading and writing life in Rebecca Skloot's The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks and Richard Powers's Generosity: an enhancement
- Stories in the blood and bone : therapeutic bionarrative signatures in Gerald Vizenor's The heirs of Columbus
- Reading the flesh and fleshy reading in Octavia Butler's Fledgling
- Usable futures and trans-corporeal reading in Alina Troyano's Chicas 2000
- The humanities and the inhumanities : rereading discipline and species in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Larkin, Lesley. Reading in the postgenomic age.
- ISBN:
- 9780814215852
- 0814215858
- 9780814259436
- 081425943X
- OCLC:
- 1493306178
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000213987
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