| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages). |
| Series |
Explorations in Science and Literature Ser. |
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Explorations in Science and Literature Ser.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Race in literature.
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Science in literature.
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Black & Asian studies.
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American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
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English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
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Race in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086506
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Science in literature. (OCoLC)fst01108731
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gill, Josie. Biofictions : Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel. London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ©2020 9781350099838 |
| ISBN |
9781350099845 (electronic book) |
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1350099848 |
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135009983X |
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9781350099838 |
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