Format:
1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
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1 illustrations
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783631891797
Series Statement:
MeLiS. Medien – Literaturen – Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik Vol.28
Content:
This book addresses a research gap in the study of eugenics in fictional literature: the analysis of the nexus of eugenics and genetics in 21st-century novels, detached from their authors’ ideological beliefs. It is based on an understanding of literature as an interdiscourse in Jürgen Link‘s sense. The study employs categories developed by Rabinow and Rose in the context of Foucault‘s concept of “biopower.” It thereby demonstrates that, though officially fallen from grace in light of the Nazi atrocities committed in the name of racial hygiene, eugenic ideas remain surprisingly resilient in the sciences as well as in fiction. Thus, the nexus between eugenics and genetics continues to serve as an important force in the structuring of scientific and contemporary popular (inter-)discourses.
Note:
Doctoral Thesis
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Inhaltsverzeichnis - List of Abbreviations- Introduction- Eugenic Literatures- What's in a Name?- Simon Mawer: Mendel's Dwarf (1997)- Dan Brown, Inferno (2013)- Robert Sawyer: The Neanderthal Parallax (2002-2003)- Jodi Picoult, Second Glance (2003- Writing the Eugenetic Imagination- Works Cited- Literature- Criticism
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631876978
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schrage-Lang, Melanie The eugenetic imagination Berlin : Peter Lang, 2023 ISBN 9783631876978
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Roman
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Genetik
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Eugenik
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Geschichte 2000-2020
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Hochschulschrift
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