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

Publication | Library Call Number: PS228.E84 E54 2004

Physical Description: xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN: 0807828688
0807855316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Race in literature.
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