Autor(en)

Schrage-Lang, Melanie:

Auflage

Auflage: 1

Verlag / Jahr

Peter Lang, 2022.

Format / Einband

Gebundener Originalpappband 288 Seiten

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 438 g

ISBN

3631876971

EAN

9783631876978

Bestell-Nr

1222527

Bemerkungen

Frisches und sauberes Exemplar. 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.1. Introduction ................................................................................13 2. Eugenic Literatures ....................................................................23 3. What’s in a Name?.....................................................................29 3.1 Eugenic Truth Discourses ..............................................................30 3.1.1 Nature over Nurture, or: Heredity Is Paramount ..........31 3.1.2 Eugenics, Race, and Racism ..............................................33 3.1.3 Degeneration and Degenerates Everywhere .....................37 3.1.4 Human Improvement and Race Betterment.....................42 3.2 Eugenic Strategies of Intervention and the Eugenic Subject 45 3.3 Human Genetics and Genomics Truth Discourses ...................50 3.3.1 Eugenics as Pseudoscience and Aberration ......................50 3.3.2 Central Dogma, Genetic Determinism, and Genocentrism.......................................................................54 3.3.3 Race and Racial Science After the Holocaust? ...............57 3.3.4 Individual Choice and Autonomy....................................60 3.3.5 Gene Therapy and Human Enhancement .......................65 3.4 Genetic Strategies of Intervention and the Genetic Subject .....68 4. Simon Mawer: Mendels Dwarf (1997) ............................... 75 4.1 Nature/Nurture and the Central Dogma.....................................77 4.2 Benign Choices vs. “the Malign Hand of Chance” ....................844.3 Dwarfs, Criminals, and Other Degenerates ...............................94 4.4 Mendel's Dwarf and Truth Discourses Miscellaneous..........103 4.4.1 Race.....................................................................................103 4.4.2 Pseudoscience................................................................... 109 4.4.3 Improvement, Therapy, and Enhancement .................. 116 4.5 Intervention Strategies and the (Eu-)Genetic Subject............ 117 4.6 Mendel's Dwarf: Imagining the Eugenetic Professional ....... 132 5. Dan Brown: Inferno (2013) ...................................................139 5.1 Eugenetics and the “Population Apocalypse Equation”........ 141 5.2 Sacrificing Individual Choice and Autonomy.......................... 144 5.3 Humanity*: Eugenetics and the Pursuit of the Posthuman ... 147 5.4 (Pseudo-)Science, Zealots, and Superhumans.......................... 152 5.5 Strategies for Intervention and Modes of Subjectification 154 5.6 Inferno^ Doomsday Scenarios, and Eugenetic Solutions .........159 6. Robert Sawyer: The Neanderthal Parallax (2002-2003) 165 6.1 Sapient, Neanderthal, and Degenrate Hominids .................... 169 6.1.1 (Over-)Population in Two Parallel Worlds................... 169 6.1.2 On Rape, War, and Genocide ..........................................172 6.2 Genetic Determinism in Two Parallel Worlds ...........................179 6.3 Chance vs. Choice in the Creation of a Hybrid Child........... 183 6.4 Perpetual Improvement of the Barast Gene Pool......................187 6.5 Pseudoscience and Aberrations in Parallel Worlds ...................190 6.6 A Parallel World Without Racism...............................................193 6.7 A Eugenic Field Experiment in a Parallel World ......................197 7. Jodi Picoult: Second Glance (2003)......................................207 7.1 The Nature-nurture Controversy vs. Genetic Determinism ... 209 7.2 Charting the Degenerates ...........................................................215 7.3 Breeding Better Vermonters vs. Individual Health ..................220 7.4 State Coercion vs. Individual Choice and Autonomy............222 7.5 Pseudoscientific Endeavors vs. “Real” Science........................227 7.6 The Abenaki and Eugenic Racism in Vermont.........................233 7.7 Strategies for Intervention and Modes of Subjectification .....238 7.8 Second Glance: An Allegory .......................................................251 8. Writing the Eugenetic Imagination.......................................255 Works Cited....................................................................................265 Literature...............................................................................................265 Criticism................................................................................................265 ISBN 9783631876978

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