Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance /

Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: English, Daylanne K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Eugenics in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > White authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Race in literature.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > White authors.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • W.E.B. Du Bois's family crisis
  • T.S. Eliot's strange gods : celibacy, hierarchy, and tradition
  • The making and delivering of Americans in Gertrude Stein's early writings, 1903-1925
  • Blessed are the barren : lynching, reproduction, and the drama of new Negro womanhood, 1916-1930
  • New white women the U.S. eugenic family studies field workers, 1910-1918.

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