- Title
- Cosmopolitanism vs
- Author/Creator
- Ewa Barbara Luczak
- Publication Details
- Mocking Eugenics: American Culture Against Scientific Hatred, pp.101-123
- Annotation
- Studies how Hemingway weaponized humor in his battle with contemporaneous eugenic theories of Nordic supremacy masquerading as scientific truth. Interprets The Torrents of Spring as a political satire written by a cosmopolitan author concerned with the rise of new "racial" groups post-World War I, American immigration policies, and the consequences of racial cleansing. Luczak concludes that Hemingway's satiric novella engages directly with the major principles found in Grant's popular political treatise: "hysteria over the passing of the great white race in Europe; the doctrine of white superiority; his conviction of racial unknowability; and his denial of sovereignty to new nations considered to be racially diverse."
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131994303691
Book chapter
Cosmopolitanism vs
Mocking Eugenics: American Culture Against Scientific Hatred, pp.101-123
2021
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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