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Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- English, Daylanne K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Eugenics in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--White authors--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- African Americans in literature.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English argues that in the 1920's, 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890877758
- 9780807863527
- 0807863521
- OCLC:
- 70752359
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