| Description |
xii, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index. |
| Contents |
Tight-lipped "Oracle" : around and beyond Cane / Genevieve Fabre and Michel Feith -- Jean Toomer's Cane : modernism and race in interwar America / Werner Sollors -- Identity in motion: placing Cane / George Hutchinson -- Poetics of passing in Jean Toomer's Cane / Charles-Yves Grandjeat -- "Waters of my heart" : myth and belonging in Jean Toomer's Cane / Francoise Clary -- Feeding the soul with words : preaching and dreaming in Cane / Cecile Coquet -- "Karintha" : a textual analysis / Monica Michlin -- Dramatic and musical structures in "Harvest song" and "Kabnis" : Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Genevieve Fabre -- Black modernism? the early poetry of Jean Toomer and Claude McKay / Wolfgang Karrer -- Race and the visual arts in the works of Jean Toomer and Georgia O'Keefe / Martha Jane Nadell -- Jean Toomer and Horace Liveright; or, a new Negro gets "into the swing of it" / Michael Soto -- Building the new race : Jean Toomer's eugenic aesthetic / Diana I. Williams -- Reception of Cane in France / Michel Fabre. |
| Subject |
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.
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African Americans in literature.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Fabre, Genevieve.
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Feith, Michel, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0813528461 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813528453 (alk. paper) |
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