Unnatural selections [electronic resource] : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance /

English, Daylanne K.

Unnatural selections eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / [electronic resource] : Daylanne K. English. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004. - xii, 267 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
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.


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