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oapen-20.500.12657-588422022-10-15T03:24:45Z Narrative in the Age of the Genome Choksey, Lara literature and science genetics biology Doris Lessing Samuel Delany Boris Strugatsky Arkady Strugatsky Kir Bulychev Kazuo Ishiguro Saidiya Hartman Yaa Gyasi Svetlana Alexievich Jeff VanderMeer bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FL Science fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 BSLS Book Prize 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. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust 2022-10-14T14:54:49Z 2022-10-14T14:54:49Z 2021 book ONIX_20221014_9781350102569_173 9781350102569 9781350102552 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58842 eng Explorations in Science and Literature application/pdf n/a 9781350102552.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350102576 10.5040/9781350102576 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350102569 9781350102552 Bloomsbury Academic 232 London open access
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Shortlisted for the 2021 BSLS Book Prize 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. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust
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