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Biofictions Race Genetics and the Contemporary Novel 1st Edition by Josie Gill 135009983X 9781350099838

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Author(s): Dr Josie Gill

ISBN(s): 9781350099838, 135009983X

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 3.69 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

SKU: EB-33699066 Category: Poetry - American Poetry Tag: Dr Josie Gill

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ISBN 10: 135009983X

ISBN 13: 9781350099838

Author: Josie Gill

Winner of the 2020 British Society for Literature and Science book prize.
In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores how the contemporary novel has drawn upon, and intervened in, debates about race in late 20th and 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers including Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead, Biofictions demonstrates how ideas of race are produced at the intersection of science and fiction, which together create the stories about identity, racism, ancestry and kinship which characterize our understanding of race today. By highlighting the role of narrative in the formation of racial ideas in science, this book calls into question the apparent anti-racism of contemporary genetics, which functions narratively, rather than factually or objectively, within the racialized contexts in which it is embedded. In so doing, Biofictions compels us to rethink the long-asked question of whether race is a biological fact or a fiction, calling instead for a new understanding of the relationship between race, science and fiction.

Biofictions Race Genetics and the Contemporary Novel 1st Table of contents:

1. The Roots of African Eve: Science Writing on Human Origins and Alex Haley’s Roots
2. Race, Genetic Ancestry Tracing and Facial Expression: “Focusing on the Faces” in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
3. “One Part Truth and Three Parts Fiction”: Race, Science and Narrative in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
4. “The Sick Swollen Heart of This Land”: Pharmacogenomics, Racial Medicine and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt
5. Mutilation and Mutation: Epigenetics and Racist Environments in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses
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