Jean Toomer : race, repression, and revolution /

"The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching eyewitness portraits of Jim Crow violence, few seem...

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Autore principale: Foley, Barbara, 1948- (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=760214
Sommario:
  • Part 1. Touching Naked Reality: Socialism, the Labor Movement, and the Embers of Revolution ; The Tight Cocoon: Class, Culture, and the New Negro ; The Experiment in America: Sectional Art and Literary Nationalism ; All the Dead Generations: Jean Toomer's Dark Sister
  • Part 2. In the Land of Cotton: "Kabnis" ; Georgia on His Mind: Part 1 of Cane ; Black and Brown Worlds Heaving Upward: Part 2 of Cane
  • Coda: Black Super-Vaudeville: History and Form in Cane.