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Eugenicist mistress & ethnic mother: Mina Loy and futurism, 1913-1917.(Critical Essay)

From: MELUS  |  Date: 9/22/2005  |  Author: Pozorski, Aimee L.

 
   --you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval 
   --all your pet illusions must be unmasked 
 
--Mina Loy, "Feminist Manifesto," 1914 

The politics and poetics of the notorious Jewish-British-turned-American poet Mina Loy dramatize the tension between personal investment and social critique, a tension that she enacted from 1913-1917 through an apparent commitment to the racist Futurist movement while also experimenting with the poetics of racial inheritance. By ...

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