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Author : Cynthia Earl Kerman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807115480
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Jean Toomer written by Cynthia Earl Kerman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Author : Robert B. Jones
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616416
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer written by Robert B. Jones and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying." Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies.
Author : Nellie Y. McKay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jean Toomer, Artist written by Nellie Y. McKay and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936
Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195083296
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A Jean Toomer Reader written by Jean Toomer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Toomer achieved instant recognition as a critic and thinker in 1923 with the publication of his novel Cane, a harsh, eloquent vision of black American hardship and suffering. But because of his reclusive, introspective nature, Toomer's fame waned in later years, and today his other contributions to American thought and literature are all but forgotten. Now, this collection of unpublished writings restores a crucial dimension to our understanding of this important African American author. Thematically arranging letters, sketches, poems, autobiography, short stories, a play, and a children's story, Frederik Rusch offers insight into Toomer's mind and spirituality, his feelings on racial identity in America, and his attitudes toward and ideas about Cane. Rusch highlights Toomer's reflections on America, its people, landscape, and politics, reveals his significance for the problems and issues of today, and helps us understand Toomer not only as writer, but also as social critic, prophet, mystic, and idealist. Exploring Toomer's attempts to find self-realization and transcend social and cultural definitions of race, this book offers a unique view of the United States through the life of one of its most significant and fascinating intellectuals.
Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252035402
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Brother Mine written by Jean Toomer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unusually valuable for the history of modernism. This fascinating correspondence will create further interest in Toomer, Frank, and the mixed-race environment of the 1920s."---Linda Wagner-Martin, author of Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography --
Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486829251
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Cane written by Jean Toomer and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exit without it." — Alice Walker "A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing …. This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." — Maya Angelou Hailed by critics for its literary experimentation and vivid portrayal of African-American characters and culture, Cane represents one of the earliest expressions of the Harlem Renaissance. Combining poetry, drama, and storytelling, it contrasts life in an African-American community in the rural South with that of the urban North. Author Jean Toomer (1894–1967) drew upon his experiences as a teacher in rural Georgia to create a variety of Southern psychological realism that ranks alongside the best works of William Faulkner. The book's three-part structure, ranging from South to North and back again, is united by its focus on the lives of African-American men and women in a world of bigotry, violence, passion, and tenderness.
Author : Charles Scruggs
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234510
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History written by Charles Scruggs and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History, Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr examine original sources to show how the cultural wars of the 1920s influenced the shaping of Toomer's writing and subsequent efforts to escape the racial definitions of American society.
Author : Chezia Thompson-Cager
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820424927
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane written by Chezia Thompson-Cager and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cane one of the major works of the Harlem Renaissance and Jean Toomer's imagist masterpiece, is now a part of the canon in Afro-American literature. Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane is a unique literary tool that explores the brilliance and far-sighted vision of Toomer, allowing Cane to be taught holistically as a discovery process, using the blues motif and the poetic essay. This book's text and figures ground a discussion of Cane's enigmatic and figurative language, connecting the Harlem Renaissance to the Negritude Movement and to later Afro-centric literary movements. This book also reviews P.B.S. Pinchback's legacy as a non-Negro, able to pass easily in white society, the influence of Ouspensky, H. L Mencken's critical work, The Paris Brotherhood, and «Saccaharum officinarum-G.» Like the lunar arcs dividing Cane, the book works as an instructional map. The pictures from the first complete production also tell a remarkable story.
Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882580289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Wayward and the Seeking written by Jean Toomer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geneviève Fabre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813528465
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance written by Geneviève Fabre and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826356389
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A Drama of the Southwest written by Jean Toomer and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.
Author : Charles R. Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Invisible Darkness written by Charles R. Larson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen, author of Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). Charles R. Larson examines the common belief that both writers "disappeared" after the Harlem Renaissance and died in obscurity; he dispels the misconception that they vanished into the white world and lived unproductive and unrewarding lives. In clear, jargon-free language, Larson demonstrates the opposing views that both writers had about their work v.
Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892514257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Essentials written by Jean Toomer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphorisms about modern man and his relationship with technology and society
Author : Catherine Lacey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632866552
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Art of the Affair written by Catherine Lacey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising. Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson, who had encouraged her writing, and had also brought critical attention to the fiction of Anaïs Nin . . . whom he later bedded. And so it goes, the long chain of love, affections, and artistic influences among writers, musicians, and artists that weaves its way through the The Art of the Affair--from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles. Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient, cleverly designed and colorfully illustrated, it's the perfect gift for your literary lover--and the perfect read for any good-natured gossip-monger.
Author : Jean Wagner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252003417
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Black Poets of the United States written by Jean Wagner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
Author : Siobhan B. Somerville
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324430
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Queering the Color Line written by Siobhan B. Somerville and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interconnected constructions of race and sexuality at the turn of the century.
Author : Charles Scruggs
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280665X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History written by Charles Scruggs and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
