Ewa Barbara Luczak

Mocking Eugenics (eBook, ePUB)

American Culture against Scientific Hatred

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mocking Eugenics explores the opposition to eugenic discourse mounted by twentieth-century American artists seeking to challenge and destabilise what they viewed as a dangerous body of thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000416244
• Artikelnr.: 62021300

Autorenporträt

Ewa Barbara Luczak is Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and President of the Polish Association for American Studies. She is the author of How Their Living in Europe Affected Five African American Authors, Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination: Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century and the co-editor of New Cosmopolitanism, Race and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "I am for the little man": Charlie Chaplin's comedies and
the eugenic American 2. Is the "strenuous life" a pleasant life? Euthenic
efficiency, racial duty, and the phenomenon of Anita Loos 3. Eugenic
marriages and psychometrics in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! and
The Vegetable 4. Cosmopolitanism vs. eugenic racial nationalism: Ernest
Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring and Madison Grant's The Passing of the
Great Race 5. For "the betterment of the human family"? California
sterilizations, Wallace Thurman, and Tomorrow's Children Conclusions: Could
it have happened here? The borderline existence of anti-eugenic satire