The Conversation: Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the ‘everlasting song’ that defined the Harlem Renaissance
Renowned for its experimental style and provocative depictions of 20th century US race relations, Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923) remains the great enigma of African American literary modernism. The novel ...
Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the ‘everlasting song’ that defined the Harlem Renaissance
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Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the 'everlasting song' that defined the Harlem Renaissance
On , about a year before he published his first book, Cane, Jean Toomer, age 27, wrote to his first love, a black teenager named Mae Wright, confessing his ambivalence about the dogged ...
NMAF copy 39088019843234 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. Tight-lipped "Oracle": around and beyond Cane / Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith -- Jean Toomer's Cane: modernism and race in ...
Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s ...
Jean Toomer received much acclaim for his portrait of African-American life in the early 20th century in his 1923 book Cane. The Harlem Renaissance author wrote vivid vignettes in a series of poems ...
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Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith