Unnatural selections
Subtitle: eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
By: Daylanne K. English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index
Table of contents: title: W.E.B. Du Bois's family crisis; title: T.S. Eliot's strange gods : celibacy, hierarchy, and tradition; title: The making and delivering of Americans in Gertrude Stein's early writings, 1903-1925; title: Blessed are the barren : lynching, reproduction, and the drama of new Negro womanhood, 1916-1930; title: New white women : the U.S. eugenic family studies field workers, 1910-1918