Narrative In The Age Of The Genome: Genetic Worlds (Explorations In Science And Literature) - 9781350213845

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.

• | Author: Lara Choksey
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1350213845
• | ISBN-13: 9781350213845