Bodies of the Future in Ideal Societies: Representations of Eugenics in Brazilian Modernist Literature

Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science 5:13-26 (2008)
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This article aims at analyzing the representations of eugenics in two utopian novels of Brazilian modernist literature: A Amazônia Misteriosa by Gastão Cruls and O Presidente Negro ou o Choque das Raças by Monteiro Lobato. Diverse and contradictory, these representations are proposals for radical and aesthetic eugenics, shaping a dense arena where fictional narratives fight each other to lure readers into certain views on nationality and science.

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The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere.Francis Galton & Lyman Tower Sargent - 2001 - Utopian Studies 12 (2):191 - 209.

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