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Reading in the postgenomic age : race, discipline, and bionarrativity in contemporary North American literature / Lesley Larkin.

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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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