Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.
In challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English argues that in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W.E.B. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigrati...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2004.
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Summary: | In challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English argues that in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W.E.B. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration and intraracial breeding. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-260) and index. |
ISBN: | 0807863521 9780807863527 |