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  • Reading in the Postgenomic Age

    Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature

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    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    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 ... Leer más

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    de Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
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    Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind -- seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his career -- and although they include some of his most resonant in his own time, they are largely overlooked today. Several of the pieces -- which include The ... Leer más

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  • Goethe

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