Narrating life : : experiments with human and animal bodies in literature, science and art / / edited by Stefan Herbrechter, Elisabeth Friis.

• TeilnehmendeR: Herbrechter, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Experimental Practices 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Narrating(−)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction /; From Lives /; In my Core I have the Strange Impression that I don’t Belong to the Human Species: Clarice Lispector’s Água viva as Life Writing? /; Species Encounters: O. Butler Meets Haraway Meets Deleuze and Guattari /; Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life /; Dissonance, Data, and dna: Aesthetics, Biopolitics and Transgenic Music in Richard Powers’ Orfeo /; “Chromosomal Cuties”, “Fembots”, “Chatty Cyber Trio” or “Cantankerous Clones”? Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Teknolust /; Submarine Experiments with Human Lives by Christoph Ransmayr – A Waterman Narrates /; In Toxicating Languages of Bioinformatic Circulation: Poetics and Other “Smallwork” in The Flame Alphabet /; Life beyond ‘Critique’: Murakami after Latour /; Aporias of Survival: Kafka’s Alien Incursion /; The Atlas of Man (If by Man We Also Mean Woman) /; Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives /; Ecolinguistic Activism: How and Why to Rite /; Death Writing – Toward a Bestiary of the Biological Real /; Experimenting with Bones /; The Sponge Diver or Bodies on the Seabed /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004312072
• ISSN: 1873-8788
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Stefan Herbrechter, Elisabeth Friis.

Narrating Life explores the relationship between literature, science and the arts and the way in which they are informed by the process of narrating life. More specifically, it asks: how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by the emergence of a critical culture of biopolitics and its rhetorical figurations? Its topicality for literary and cultural studies lies therefore in its exploration of the question: to what extent could narratives of life (or life-writing) be understood as a special practice through which to access the contemporary discussion about biopolitics with its strategies of immunity, mutation, and contagion. The individual contributions address these questions through focusing on new forms of life writing in traditional and new media, science writing and artistic and critical creative practice. In doing so, they also explore and redraw the boundaries between fictional and factual experimental practices. Contributors: Amelie Björck, Elisabeth Friis, Holly Henry, Stefan Herbrechter, Tom Idema, Moritz Ingwersen, Cristina Iuli, Tanja Nusser, Angela Rawlings, Manuela Rossini, Dorion Sagan, Laura Shackelford, Amalie Smith, Marianne Sommer, Steve Tomasula, David Wagner , Jeff Wallace, Dominik Zechner.