Cosmopolitanism vs

Studies how Hemingway weaponized humor in his battle with contemporaneous eugenic theories of Nordic supremacy masquerading as scientific truth. Interprets The Torrents of Spring as a political satire written by a cosmopolitan author concerned with the rise of new racial groups post-World War I, American immigration policies, and the consequences of racial cleansing. Luczak concludes that Hemingway\u27s satiric novella engages directly with the major principles found in Grant\u27s popular political treatise: hysteria over the passing of the great white race in Europe; the doctrine of white superiority; his conviction of racial unknowability; and his denial of sovereignty to new nations considered to be racially diverse