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Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

By: Ewa Barbara Luczak

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Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

By: Ewa Barbara Luczak

A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940.

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1137545798

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Mocking Eugenics

American Culture against Scientific Hatred

By: Ewa Barbara Luczak

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Mocking Eugenics

American Culture against Scientific Hatred

By: Ewa Barbara Luczak

Mocking Eugenics explores the opposition to eugenic discourse mounted by twentieth-century American artists seeking to challenge and destabilize what they viewed as a dangerous body of thought. Focusing on their wielding of humor to attack the contemporaneous science of heredity and the totalitarian impulse informing it, this book confronts the conflict between eugenic theories presented as grounded in scientific and metaphysical truth and the satirical treatment of eugenics as not only absurdly illogical but also antithetical to democratic ideals and inimical to humanistic values. Through analyses of the films of Charlie Chaplin and the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Anita Loos, and Wallace Thurman, Mocking Eugenics examines their use of laughter to dismantle the rhetoric of perfectionism, white supremacy, and nativism that shaped mainstream expressions of American patriotism and normative white masculinity. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural studies, literature, cinema, sociology, humor, and American studies.

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Routledge

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1000416240

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Pathologizing Black Bodies

The Legacy of Plantation Slavery

By: Constante González Groba,Ewa Barbara Luczak,Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

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Pathologizing Black Bodies

The Legacy of Plantation Slavery

By: Constante González Groba,Ewa Barbara Luczak,Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural conventions, political arrangements, social institutions and, most significantly, materially and symbolically engraved upon the body, with “the self” often deprived of agency and sovereignty. Consisting of three parts, this study focuses on works of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and cultural narratives by mainly African American authors, aiming to highlight the different ways in which race has been pathologized in America and examine how the legacies of plantation ideology have been metaphorically inscribed on black bodies. The variety of analytical approaches and thematic foci with respect to theories and discourses surrounding race and the body allow us to delve into this thorny territory in the hope of gaining perspectives about how African American lives are still shaped and haunted by the legacies of plantation slavery. Furthermore, this volume offers insights into the politics of eugenic corporeality in an illustrative dialogue with the lasting carceral and agricultural effects of life on a plantation. Tracing the degradation and suppression of the black body, both individual and social, this study includes an analysis of the pseudo-scientific discourse of social Darwinism and eugenics; the practice of mass incarceration and the excessive punishment of black bodies; and food apartheid and USDA practices of depriving black farmers of individual autonomy and collective agency. Based on such an interplay of discourses, methodologies and perspectives, this volume aims to use literature to further examine the problematic relationship between race and the body and stress that black lives do indeed matter in the United States.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000875105

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9781000875102

Mocking Eugenics

American Culture against Scientific Hatred

By: Ewa Barbara Luczak

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American Culture against Scientific Hatred

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Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

By: Ewa Barbara Luczak

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Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

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Book's by Ewa Barbara Luczak

Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Mocking Eugenics

Mocking Eugenics

Pathologizing Black Bodies

Pathologizing Black Bodies

Mocking Eugenics

Mocking Eugenics

Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

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