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

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: English, Daylanne K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.