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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: English, Daylanne K. Unnatural selections. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)607385604 Online version: English, Daylanne K. Unnatural selections. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)610008107 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daylanne K English |
ISBN: | 0807828688 9780807828687 0807855316 9780807855317 0807863521 9780807863527 |
OCLC Number: | 53253733 |
Description: | xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Daylanne K. English. |
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Abstract:
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 immigration and intraracial breeding.
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"English's most significant contribution is the unusual juxtaposition and sustained connection of literary lives across the matrix of color, class, and gender. Her refusal to isolate 'black' from 'white' and 'male' from 'female' leads her to some rather remarkable readings, giving this book a formidable intellectual heft." - Matthew Pratt Guterl, Indiana University" Read more...

