1st Edition
Biofictions Literary and Visual Imagination in the Age of Biotechnology
By Lejla Kucukalic
Copyright 2022
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
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Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘bioimagination,’ and ‘biodiscourse’ to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new interdisciplinary area of research that correlates processes of genetics and literature, based on two critical approaches. One, drawing parallels between the genetic codes, human language, formal... Read more
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Biofictions
2 Biopunk Now
3 Burroughs Was a Biopunk
4 Molecular and Literary Language
5 Contemporary Bioliterature
6 Female Bioborgs
Biography
Lejla Kucukalic received her PhD in English from the University of Delaware, USA. She taught at Columbia University, USA, and the University of California Los Angeles, USA, and is currently at Khalifa University, UAE. She is the author of Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (2008) and articles about Arabic science fiction and cross-cultural education.
