Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813528461 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Back Cover Jean Toomer's novel Cane has been hailed as the harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and as a model for modernist writing, yet it eludes categorization and its author remains an enigmatic and controversial figure in American literature. Others show how the publication of Cane and his later writings placed Toomer at the heart of contemporary ideological and artistic debates: race and identity, the negro writer and the white literary world, primitivism and modernism . The present collection of essays by European and American scholars gives a fresh perspective by using sources made available only in recent years, highlighting Toomer's bold experimentations, as well as his often ambiguous responses to the quest
Jean Toomer's novel Cane has been hailed as the harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and as a model for modernist writing, yet it eludes categorization and its author remains an enigmatic and controversial figure in American literature. Some of the essays achieve this through close readings of the text, leading to new and challenging interpretations of Toomer's transcendence of genres and styles. The present collection of essays by European and American scholars gives a fresh perspective by using sources made available only in recent years, highlighting Toomer's bold experimentations, as well as his often ambiguous responses to the questions of his time. Others show how the publication of Cane and his later writings placed Toomer at the heart of contemporary ideological and artistic debates: race and identity, the negro writer and the white literary world, primitivism and modernism.
She has published widely on African American and Hispanic literature, including her book Drumbeats, Masks, and Metaphors.MICHEL FEITH is associate professor at the University of Nantes, France, and has published on Asian, Hispanic, and African American literatures.. GENEVIÈVE FABRE is a professor at the University Denis Diderot in Paris, where she is director of the Center of African America
Jacob Skinner said Gives Great Insite into Cane and Toomer and Their Respective Place in the Harlem Renaissance. I'd recomend this book to anyone interested in digging deeper into the mistery that is Cane and Jean Toomer. Their is some litterary analysis but mostly the book disects Cane's role in the H.R. and the spiritual, racial, and philosophical motives Toomer may have intended by his novel and some that he may not have. By reading the essays in