Unnatural selections :eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
- 作者: English, Daylanne K.
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2004.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: Eugenics history , Littérature américaine Auteurs blancs -- Histoire et critique. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Literature history , Eugénisme dans la littérature. , American literature. , American literature White authors. , Medicine. , 1900-1999 , White authorsHistory and criticism. , Noirs américains dans la littérature. , Modernism (Literature) , Eugenik , American literature White authors -- History and criticism. , Médecine Histoire -- 20e siècle. , Auteurs noirs américainsHistoire et critique. , Medicine , Schwarze , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , History, 20th Century , White authors. , Literature , Littérature américaine 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. , Vie intellectuelle , African Americans Intellectual life. , History. , Eugenics , Modernisme (Littérature) États-Unis. , Harlem Renaissance. , Electronic book. , Modernisme (Littérature) , Littérature américaine , African Americans , African American authors. , American literature 20th century -- History and criticism. , Noirs américains Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle. , History and criticism. , Race in literature. , Auteurs blancsHistoire et critique. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Literatur , United States , African Americans Intellectual life -- 20th century. , African Americans in literature. , Intellectual life. , Histoire et critique. , Electronic books. , American literature African American authors -- History and criticism. , Médecine , Schwarze. , History , Medicine History -- 20th century. , USA. , Race dans la littérature. , AmericanGeneral. , Intellectual life , Histoire , American literature , African American authorsHistory and criticism. , Noirs américains , Littérature américaine Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique. , American literature African American authors. , United States. , Modernism (Literature) United States. , Eugenics in literature. , history
- ISBN: 0807863521 , 9780807863527
- ISBN: 0807828688 , 9780807828687 , 0807855316 , 9780807855317
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-260) and index. 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.
- 摘要: 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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Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She 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, migration, and intraracial breeding. English's interdisciplinary approach brings together the work of those canonical writers with relatively neglected literary, social scientific, and visual texts. She examines antilynching plays by Angelina Weld Grimke as well as the provocative writings of white female eugenics field workers. English also analyzes the Crisis magazine as a family album filtering uplift through eugenics by means of photographic documentation of an ever-improving black race. English suggests that current scholarship often misreads early-twentieth-century visual, literary, and political culture by applying contemporary social and moral standards to the past. Du Bois, she argues, was actually more of a eugenicist than Eliot. Through such reconfiguration of the modern period, English creates an allegory for the American present: because eugenics was, in its time, widely accepted as a reasonable, progressive ideology, we need to consider the long-term implications of contemporary genetic engineering, fertility enhancement and control, and legislation promoting or discouraging family growth.
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