Narrative in the Age of the Genome : Genetic Worlds (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Deindustrialisation and the Selfish Gene Gene and Strike Overpopulation and Whiteness: Doris Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor Brackets and Choice: Samuel Delany's Trouble on Triton Chapter 2: Cultivating Dreamworlds Mutual Aid Cultivating Humans The Fifth Problem: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic Genogeography: Kir Bulychev's "Another's Memory" Chapter 3: Memoir and the Laboratory Metaphors of the Human Genome Project Welfare, Profit, and the Vitruvian Man Ending Development: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Algorithmic Governmentality in Andrew Niccols's Gattaca Chapter 4: Speculative Ancestry Ancestry Making Genre, Genetics, and Genealogy Henrietta Lacks and Stolen Flesh Reparation, Romance, and Kinlessness Leaving: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother Staying: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing Chapter 5: Toxic Infrastructure Chernobyl and the Postgenomic Condition Adaptation, Improvisation, and Epigenetics Mutation and Fragmentation: Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer Transitional Characterisation: Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy Conclusion: Disappearance, community, characterisation, genre, and scale Works Cited Index