Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds

Genomic technologies have transformed our understanding of humanity and our relationship with the world, and Narrative in the Age of the Genome explores this impact across various literary forms, cultural practices, and political imaginaries. It argues that new descriptions of biological value introduced through genomic sequencing in the late 1970s led to a broader crisis of narrative form. The eBook editions of the book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com, funded by The Wellcome Trust.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Genomic technologies have had a profound impact on our understanding of what it means to be human and our connections to the world we inhabit, as well as on our practices of inhabiting the world. This open access book explores 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, labor 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.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350213845