Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History / / Charles Scruggs, Lee VanDemarr.
Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of i...
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Scruggs, Charles, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History / Charles Scruggs, Lee VanDemarr. Reprint 2016 Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©1999 1 online resource (320 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Anniversary Collection Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Witness of History -- Chapter 1. Sparta -- Chapter 2. The New Metropolitan -- Chapter 3. Cultural Politics, 1920 -- Chapter 4. Whose America? -- Chapter 5. Writing Cane -- Chapter 6. The Gothic Detective Story -- Chapter 7. Cane in the City -- Chapter 8. The Black Man in the Cellar -- Epilogue: "An Incredibly Entangled Situation" -- Appendix: Jean Toomer's New York Call Articles -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large. Toomer's own life reflected that internal conflict, and he has been an ambiguous figure in literary history, an author who wrote a text that had a tremendous impact on African American authors but who eventually tried to distance himself from Cane and from his identification as a black writer. In Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History, Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr examine original sources--Toomer's rediscovered early writings on politics and race, his extensive correspondence with Waldo Frank, and unpublished portions of his autobiographies--to show how the cultural wars of the 1920s influenced the shaping of Toomer's book and his subsequent efforts to escape the racial definitions of American society. That those definitions remain crucial for American society even today is one reason Toomer's work continues to fascinate and to influence contemporary writers and readers. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. bisacsh Autobiography. Biography. Cultural Studies. Literature. VanDemarr, Lee, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 9783110442526 print 9780812234510 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512806656 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512806656 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512806656/original |
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