Biopolitical futures in twenty-first-century speculative fiction / Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside.

Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapit...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.
Main Author: Vint, Sherryl, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.
Subjects:
Speculative fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Biopolitics in literature.
Bioethics in literature.
Biotechnology in literature.
Roman d'hypothèse > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Biopolitique dans la littérature.
Biotechnologie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Speculative fiction.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Physical Description:ix, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:
Biopolitical futures in 21st century speculative fiction
Format: Book

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