{"product_id":"eugenia-a-fictional-sketch-of-future-customs-paperback","title":"Eugenia: A Fictional Sketch of Future Customs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEduardo Urzaiz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little-known gem of utopian\/dystopian fiction published in 1919 tells \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e the story of a eugenically engineered society of the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is the year 2218. In \"Villautopia,\" the capital of a Central American nation, the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e state selects young, biologically desirable citizens to act as breeders. Embryos \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e are implanted in males to increase a flagging population rate, and the offspring \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e are raised in state facilities until old enough to choose their own, nonnuclear \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e families. Sterilization of children with mental or physical abnormalities further \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ensures the purity of the gene pool. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written two years before Yevgeny Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e and twelve years before \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aldous Huxley's \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEugenia\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the story of Ernesto, who at age twenty-three is selected as a breeder. Celiana, his thirty-eight-year-old lover \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and an accomplished scholar, is deemed unfit for reproduction. To cope with \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e her feelings of guilt and hopelessness, she increasingly turns to marijuana, and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e her scholarly productivity declines. Meanwhile Ernesto falls in love with a fellow \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e breeder, a young woman named Eugenia-but the life they ultimately choose is \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e not quite what the state had envisioned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Taking up important challenges of modern society-population growth, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e reproductive behavior and technologies, experimentation with gender roles, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and changes in family dynamics-\u003ci\u003eEugenia\u003c\/i\u003e is published here in English for the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e first time. Sarah A. Buck Kachaluba and Aaron Dziubinskyj provide a critical \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e apparatus helping readers to understand the novel's literary genesis and genealogy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e as well as its historical context. Arising from its twentieth-century origins, yet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e remarkably contemporary, \u003ci\u003eEugenia\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasure of speculative fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEduardo Urzaiz (1876-1955) was a Cuban-Mexican schoolteacher, gynecologist, obstetrician, artist, and student of psychiatry. Sarah A. Buck Kachaluba is a research librarian in the humanities at Florida State University and has a PhD in Latin American history. Aaron Dziubinskyj is an associate professor of modern languages at DePauw University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762689376544,"sku":"9780299306847","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/47f9fc7b180220c2c3c76b4f879dae59_bba6b5c1-4171-4011-972a-36f0a3fc4473.webp?v=1780223498","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/eugenia-a-fictional-sketch-of-future-customs-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}