The Nation’s Regeneration: the Appropriation of Eugenics by the Female Protagonists in Sofía Casanova’s El doctor Wolski: páginas de Polonia y Rusia (1894) and Concha Espina’s “La torre verde” (1936, 1937)
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eugenics, Concha Espina, Sofía Casanova, national Catholicism
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Eugenics served as a prominent component in nationalist projects in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its implications for women manifest themselves in Sofía Casanova’s novel El doctor Wolski: páginas de Polonia y Rusia (1894) and Concha Espina’s short story “La torre verde” (1936, 1937). In this article I argue that in both works the protagonists appropriate this system of control to achieve their nationalist aspirations. I contend that the authors employ eugenics to insert themselves in the debates surrounding the nation’s future.
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Angela Pierce, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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