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03542aam a2200445 i 4500 001 EA0491F41DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 190524s2020 enka b 001 0 eng 020 $a 9781350099838 020 $a 135009983X 035 $a (OCoLC)1102170998 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SFB $d YDXIT $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d PSC $d QGK $d BDF $d ERL $d P4A $d OCLCA $d CUT $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR830.R34 $b G55 2020 082 04 $a 823/.91409 $2 23 100 1 $a Gill, Josie, $e author. 245 10 $a Biofictions : $b race, genetics and the contemporary novel / $c Josie Gill. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 217 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Explorations in science and literature 520 $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."--Publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 191 - 208) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 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. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Race in literature. 650 0 $a Science in literature. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Race in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086506 650 7 $a Science in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108731 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Ebook version : $z 9781350099852 830 0 $a Explorations in science and literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025143.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA0491F41DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search