Mocking Eugenics: American Culture against Scientific Hatred
Ewa Barbara Luczak, "Mocking Eugenics: American Culture against Scientific Hatred"
English | ISBN: 1032000899 | 2021 | 178 pages | EPUB | 836 KB
English | ISBN: 1032000899 | 2021 | 178 pages | EPUB | 836 KB
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,
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