“Of traditional Israel and Albion”: discourses of racial purity and the Jewish body in Mina Loy’s “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose”
This essay explores the modernist poet Mina Loy’s work “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” (1923) within its historical and cultural context. The poem consistently challenges ideologies such as eugenics, which informed anti-Semitism and sought to strengthen notions of racial purity. Incorporating the biop...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/1477 |