{"product_id":"narrative-in-the-age-of-the-genome-9781350213845","title":"Narrative in the Age of the Genome","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2021 BSLS Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eNarrative in the Age of the Genome \u003c\/i\u003ecasts new light on the intersections of genomics with politics of racism, sexuality, labour and gender, neoliberal economics and environmental crisis.\u003ci\u003eThe eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImbued throughout with deep concern for the peripheral, the possible, and the political … What emerges as most compelling out of this entire tapestry of readings is the author's interpretation of the limits and failures of the extraordinary ‘cultural power of the genome.' * Science *\u003cbr\u003eIntellectually rich and rewarding, this study ranges effortlessly across the fields of biology, socio-economic theory and philosophy, drawing on these perspectives to forge novel readings of a range of literary texts. Imaginative and astute in its reflections on genre and narrative form, it is beautifully written throughout. The argument is bold and original, grounded in rigorous research and always attentive to the specific biosocial contexts it explores. * Professor Clare Hanson, University of Southampton, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements                                                                                                                                       Introduction                                                                                                                                                        Chapter 1: Deindustrialisation and the Selfish Gene                                                                                 Gene and Strike Overpopulation and Whiteness: Doris Lessing’s \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of a Survivor\u003c\/i\u003e Brackets and Choice: Samuel Delany’s \u003ci\u003eTrouble on Triton\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 2: Cultivating Dreamworlds                                                                                                             Mutual Aid Cultivating Humans The Fifth Problem: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky’s \u003ci\u003eRoadside Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e  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 \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e Algorithmic Governmentality in Andrew Niccols’s\u003ci\u003e Gattaca\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 4: Speculative Ancestry                                                                                                                 Ancestry Making Genre, Genetics, and Genealogy Henrietta Lacks and Stolen Flesh Reparation, Romance, and Kinlessness Leaving: Saidiya Hartman’s \u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e Staying: Yaa Gyasi’s \u003ci\u003eHomegoing\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 5: Toxic Infrastructure                                                                                                          Chernobyl and the Postgenomic Condition Adaptation, Improvisation, and Epigenetics Mutation and Fragmentation: Svetlana Alexievich’s \u003ci\u003eChernobyl Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e Transitional Characterisation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy   Conclusion: Disappearance, community, characterisation, genre, and scale                                  Works Cited     Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019638866263,"sku":"9781350213845","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350213845.jpg?v=1750780870","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/narrative-in-the-age-of-the-genome-9781350213845","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}