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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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