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

Examines how ＂postgenomic literature＂ from the turn of the millennium engages in genomic discourse, with particular attention paid to interdisciplinarity and the rearticulation of racial ideology.

Lesley Larkin (she/her) is Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. She is the author of Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 1980-2020.