03216nam 2200733Ia 450 991045186790332120200520144314.00-8078-6352-1(CKB)1000000000452649(EBL)413266(OCoLC)70752359(SSID)ssj0000265457(PQKBManifestationID)11226942(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265457(PQKBWorkID)10294399(PQKB)11355013(MiAaPQ)EBC413266(Au-PeEL)EBL413266(CaPaEBR)ebr10075654(OCoLC)610008107(EXLCZ)99100000000045264920031008d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrUnnatural selections[electronic resource] eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance /Daylanne K. EnglishChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (282 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5531-6 0-8078-2868-8 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.In challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English argues that in the 1920's, 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 immigration and intraracial breeding.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEugenics in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWhite authorsHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryModernism (Literature)United StatesAfrican Americans in literatureHarlem RenaissanceRace in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Eugenics in literature.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureWhite authorsHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual lifeModernism (Literature)African Americans in literature.Harlem Renaissance.Race in literature.810.9/3556English Daylanne K882685MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451867903321Unnatural selections1971817UNINA