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Mocking Eugenics - American Culture against Scientific Hatred (Hardcover)
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Mocking Eugenics - American Culture against Scientific Hatred (Hardcover)
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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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