Biofictions

Front matter

EXPLORATIONS IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel

Josie Gill

Introduction

1 ‘The Roots of African Eve: Science Writing on Human Origins and Alex Haley’s Roots

2 Race, Genetic Ancestry Tracing and Facial Expression: ‘Focusing on the Faces’ in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

3 ‘One Part Truth and Three Parts Fiction’: Race, Science and Narrative in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

4 ‘The Sick Swollen Heart of This Land’: Pharmacogenomics, Racial Medicine and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt

5 Mutilation and Mutation: Epigenetics and Racist Environments in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses