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Biofictions Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticlePublication details: Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic [Imprint] 2020Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350099838
  • 9781350099845
  • 9781350099852
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores the ways in which the contemporary novel has drawn on and helped shape debates about race and identity in 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers such as Zadie Smith, Alex Haley, Octavia Butler and Salman Rushdie, Biofictions demonstrates how ideas of race are produced from intersecting genetic and fictional narratives which together create stories about racism, ancestry and kinship.
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In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores the ways in which the contemporary novel has drawn on and helped shape debates about race and identity in 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers such as Zadie Smith, Alex Haley, Octavia Butler and Salman Rushdie, Biofictions demonstrates how ideas of race are produced from intersecting genetic and fictional narratives which together create stories about racism, ancestry and kinship.

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