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ISBN-13: | 9780807855317 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 04/26/2004 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.64(d) |
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[An] interesting and timely book . . . English challenges literary scholars' tendency to elevate literature beyond the ideologies and politics of its time. . . . Intellectually perceptive.Journal of African American History
Well-crafted. . . . English offers her work as a model for writing the history of broad trends in American literature and culture without losing sight of crucial issues of race and gender.Journal of Southern History
English's Unnatural Selections provides a more expansive and complex definition of eugenics, as well as a sense of its diverse contexts. . . . Well written, intellectually thorough, and well illustrated. . . . [An] exciting, exemplary new contribution[s] that will be useful to scholars in African American literature as well as American studies.American Literature
This brilliantly achieved study demonstrates the 'partnership' between eugenics and class-based, racial uplift thinking that has received insufficient notice in the past. English's arguments have grave implications for contemporary debates over immigration policy and state regulation of the poor.Aldon Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
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