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

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-260) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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. Medicine -- History -- 20th century Eugenics -- history Literature -- history History, 20th Century Harlem Renaissance. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Medicine. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American literature. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- White authors. Eugenics in literature. Harlem Renaissance. Modernism (Literature) Race in literature. Eugenik Motiv Literatur Schwarze SUBJECT United States Subject United States. USA Schwärze Genre/Form History. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2003021778 ISBN 0807863521 9780807863527

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