Edition |
Second edition / edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Description |
lxxix, 472 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-472). |
Contents |
"Song of the Son": the emergence and passing of Jean Toomer by Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Jean Toomer's racial self-identification: a note on the supporting materials -- The text of Cane -- Foreword to the 1923 Edition of Cane / Waldo Frank -- Map of Sparta, Georgia -- Backgrounds and sources -- The Cane years ; Why I entered the Gurdjieff work / Jean Toomer -- Criticism -- A review of Cane / Montgomery Gregory -- A review of Cane / Robert Littell -- The younger literary movement / W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke -- The significance of Jean Toomer / Gorham B. Munson -- Jean Toomer / Paul Rosenfeld -- Jean Toomer / Sterling A. Brown -- Gurdjieff in Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Jean Toomer's Cane / Robert Bone -- The failure of a playwright / Darwin T. Turner -- Introduction to the 1969 edition of Cane / Arna Bontemps -- The search for black redemption: Jean Toomer's Cane / John M. Reilly -- A key to the poems in Cane / Bernard Bell -- The unity of Jean Toomer's Cane / Catherine L. Innes -- Jean Toomer and the South: region and race as elements within a literary imagination / Charles T. Davis -- The divided life of Jean Toomer / Alice Walker -- Looking behind Cane / David Bradley -- Textuality and vision in Jean Toomer's Cane / Charles Scruggs -- Blues ballad: Jean Toomer's "Karintha" / Gayl Jones -- Jean Toomer and the "New Negroes" of Washington / George B. Hutchinson -- Jean Toomer's Washington and the politics of class: from "Blue veins" to seventh-street rebels / Barbara Foley -- "Dorris Dances ... John Dreams": free indirect discourse and female subjectivity in Cane / Megan Abbott -- |
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Jean Toomer's Cane: modernism and race in interwar America / Werner Sollors -- Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde / Mark Whalan -- Jean Toomer and Cane: "mixed-blood" impossibilities / Gino Michael Pellegrini -- Jean Toomer's Cane and the erotics of mourning / Jennifer D. Williams -- "A small man in big spaces": the new Negro, the Mestizo, and Jean Toomer's Southwestern writing / Emily Lutenski -- Jean Toomer, the artist - an unfulfilled American life: an afterword / Nellie Y. McKay. |
Subject |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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Southern States -- Fiction.
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.
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African Americans in literature.
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Added Author |
Byrd, Rudolph P.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
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ISBN |
9780393931686 paperback |
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0393931684 paperback |
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