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Author:

English, Daylanne K.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Eugenics in literature.
American literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans in literature
Harlem Renaissance.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index.

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:

9780807855317 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807855316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807828687 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807828688 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53253733

LCCN:

2003021778

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)