“Of traditional Israel and Albion”: discourses of racial purity and the Jewish body in Mina Loy’s “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose”
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https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.22.1477Abstract
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 biopolitical theory of Rosi Braidotti, this essay explores how Loy exposes the figure of the Jewish “mongrel” as a constructed figure within eugenic discourse, in turn revealing the ways in which eugenic and biopolitical ideologies work together to govern, vilify, and glorify certain lives over others.Downloads
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30-May-2016
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Smith, Rachel. 2016. ““Of Traditional Israel and Albion”: Discourses of Racial Purity and the Jewish Body in Mina Loy’s ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 22 (May). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.22.1477.
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