Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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. 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. 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. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-12-01
Mått:153 x 18 x 17 mm
Vikt:397 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813528465

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

GENEVIÈVE FABRE is a professor at the University Denis Diderot in Paris, where she is director of the Center of African American Research. 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.

Innehållsförteckning

Tight-lipped "Oracle": around and beyond Cane / Geneviève Fabre and Michel FeithJean Toomer's Cane: modernism and race in interwar America / Werner SollorsIdentity in motion: placing Cane / George HutchinsonThe poetics of passing in Jean Toomer's Cane / Charles-Yves Grandjeat"The waters of my heart": myth and belonging in Jean Toomer's Cane / Françoise ClaryFeeding the soul with words: preaching and dreaming in Cane / Cécile Coquet"Karintha": a textual analysis / Monica MichlinDramatic and musical structures in "Harvest song" and "Kabnis": Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Geneviève FabreBlack modernism? the early poetry of Jean Toomer and Claude McKay / Wolfgang KarrerRace and the visual arts in the works of Jean Toomer and Georgia O'Keeffe / Martha Jane NadellJean Toomer and Horace Liveright; or, a new Negro gets "into the swing of it" / Michael SotoBuilding the new race: Jean Toomer's eugenic aesthetic / Diana I. WilliamsThe reception of Cane in France / Michel Fabre