Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature

by Lesley Larkin

In Reading in the Postgenomic Age, Lesley Larkin analyzes how writers across literary genres have reckoned with the launch (in the early 1990s) and completion (in 2003) of the Human Genome Project and the ways it has fallen short of its promise to do away with spurious notions of race. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ruth Ozeki, Rebecca Skloot, Gerald Vizenor, and others demonstrate that genomics is a premier terrain upon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081425943X
• ISBN13: 9780814259436
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.