1st Edition
Eugenic Fantasies Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920's
By Betsy Lee Nies
Copyright 2002
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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Eugenic Fantasies is an innovative work that combines interpretive strategies from the fields of psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary studies to create a new model for theorizing race.
Introduction Racial Identity and Subjective Loss; Chapter 1 Theoretical and Critical Contexts; Chapter 2 The Rise of Eugenics and the Quest for the Classical White Male Body; Chapter 3 Hemingway, Eugenic Terror, and the “Newest New Woman”; Chapter 4 Imaging the Statuesque; Chapter 5 Fitzgerald, Nordicism, and Racial Nostalgia; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
Biography
Betsy L. Nies
