LEADER 03698nam 2200601 450 001 9910420856403321 005 20221216024756.0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350099869 035 $a(CKB)4100000011457967 035 $a(OCoLC)1138674794 035 $a(UkLoBP)9781350099869 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42185 035 $a(PPN)257899049 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011457967 100 $a20200215d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBiofictions $erace, genetics and the contemporary novel /$fJosie Gill 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $cBloomsbury Academic$d2020 210 1$aLondon England :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2020. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (208 pages) 225 1 $aExplorations in science and literature 311 $a1-350-09986-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction 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 Conclusion Bibliography Index 330 $a"In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores how the contemporary novel has drawn upon, and intervened in, debates about race in late 20th and 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers including Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead, Biofictions demonstrates how ideas of race are produced at the intersection of science and fiction, which together create the stories about identity, racism, ancestry and kinship which characterize our understanding of race today. By highlighting the role of narrative in the formation of racial ideas in science, this book calls into question the apparent anti-racism of contemporary genetics, which functions narratively, rather than factually or objectively, within the racialized contexts in which it is embedded. In so doing, Biofictions compels us to rethink the long-asked question of whether race is a biological fact or a fiction, calling instead for a new understanding of the relationship between race, science and fiction."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aExplorations in science and literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aScience in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aScience in literature. 676 $a823.92093529 700 $aGill$b Josie$0890944 801 0$bYDX 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910420856403321 996 $aBiofictions$91990155 997 $aUNINA