東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

The biocultural imaginary: Contempor...

Banner, Olivia Parkes.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

The biocultural imaginary: Contemporary narratives of genetics and human variation in the sciences and arts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The biocultural imaginary: Contemporary narratives of genetics and human variation in the sciences and arts./
Author:	Banner, Olivia Parkes.
Description:	249 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3652.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-10A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3424159
ISBN:	9781124225203

The biocultural imaginary: Contemporary narratives of genetics and human variation in the sciences and arts.
Banner, Olivia Parkes.

The biocultural imaginary: Contemporary narratives of genetics and human variation in the sciences and arts. - 249 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3652.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2010.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

New genetic knowledges are trumpeted as heralding a new era in the understanding of human differences, particularly in terms of race, dis/ability, gender/sex, and sexuality. This dissertation investigates those claims through analyses of recent narratives about genetics and human variation. The beginning chapter elucidates debates over the use of race in biomedicine and the repercussions of genetic ancestry testing to argue that although such testing may bolster the geneticization of identity, the practice of knowledge formation it involves contests notions of essentialized identities. Chapter Two follows the postracial logic at work in the film Gattaca, in which a criticism of a culture of physical perfection is based on a claim of postraciality that the film's use of visual economies and technologies contradicts. Chapter Three interrogates the genetic discourse of sex variation with Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, in which the liberal humanist voice of its narrator supports the binary sex logic that underlies the discourses of intersex as diseased that it aims to disrupt. Yet because the novel proved instrumental in changing the biomedical approach to intersex, I suggest approaching the novel as part of a web of social and cultural practices capable of influencing biomedicine.

ISBN: 9781124225203Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

The biocultural imaginary: Contemporary narratives of genetics and human variation in the sciences and arts.
LDR:03400nmm a2200313 4500 001 2076206
005 20161028121039.5
008 170521s2010 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781124225203
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3424159
035 $a AAI3424159
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Banner, Olivia Parkes. $3 3191643
245 1 4 $a The biocultural imaginary: Contemporary narratives of genetics and human variation in the sciences and arts.
300 $a 249 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3652.
500 $a Adviser: Katherine Hayles.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2010.
506 $a This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
520 $a New genetic knowledges are trumpeted as heralding a new era in the understanding of human differences, particularly in terms of race, dis/ability, gender/sex, and sexuality. This dissertation investigates those claims through analyses of recent narratives about genetics and human variation. The beginning chapter elucidates debates over the use of race in biomedicine and the repercussions of genetic ancestry testing to argue that although such testing may bolster the geneticization of identity, the practice of knowledge formation it involves contests notions of essentialized identities. Chapter Two follows the postracial logic at work in the film Gattaca, in which a criticism of a culture of physical perfection is based on a claim of postraciality that the film's use of visual economies and technologies contradicts. Chapter Three interrogates the genetic discourse of sex variation with Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, in which the liberal humanist voice of its narrator supports the binary sex logic that underlies the discourses of intersex as diseased that it aims to disrupt. Yet because the novel proved instrumental in changing the biomedical approach to intersex, I suggest approaching the novel as part of a web of social and cultural practices capable of influencing biomedicine.
520 $a To investigate the ramifications of the latest in developmental theories, epigenetics, the next chapter turns to Greg Bear's Darwin novels, which present epigenetics as a radical break with the reigning paradigm of DNA as a cell's master. They situate that break within a discourse of "mastering the genome" that promotes a biological determinism at odds with the radical nature of epigenetics. By contrast, Octavia Butler's vision of the posthuman represents evolution as the inscription of human philosophies onto the very matter of life itself. In all these texts, genetic discourse works through the naturalization of heteronormativity. Because the discourse of genetics and evolution is one of futurity, these narratives, which focus on the child and on evolution as progressive, work to disavow the queer and/or disabled figure. With the queer aligned with the nonreproductive, and the disabled limned as a discarded remnant in evolutionary processes, genetic narratives produce representations of a heteronormalized and able-bodied "posthuman body.".
590 $a School code: 0031.
650 4 $a American literature. $3 523234
650 4 $a Gender studies. $3 2122708
650 4 $a Genetics. $3 530508
690 $a 0591
690 $a 0733
690 $a 0369
710 2 $a University of California, Los Angeles. $3 626622
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 71-10A.
790 $a 0031
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2010
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3424159