A useful addition to African-American literary scholarship....Properly emphasizes what Toomer critics have identified as the major themes of his life and work.

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Includes correspondence, poetry, short fiction, and essays.
This collection of Toomer's previously unpublished writings includes correspondence, poetry, short stories and essays.
I. Cane 1: Pre-Cane Letter to Waldo Frank, John McClure, Frank, The Liberator, Lola Ridge, Sherwood Anderson 2: Cane Letter to Gorham Munson, Kenneth Macgowan, Frank 3: Post-Cane Letter to Frank, Horace Liveright II. The Mystical Experience The Experience III. The Negro, the Blue Man, and the New Race Introduction: Prejudice; Germ Carriers; The Fable of a Creature 2: The Negro Negro Psychology in The Emperor Jones Letter to Sherwood Anderson The Negro Emergent 3: The Blue Man Letter to Horace Liveright, Waldo Frank Not Typically American Fighting the Vice 4: The New Race A New Race in America Letter to James Weldon Johnson The Americans Oppose the Force, Not the Man Mankind Means Brotherhood IV. Caught in the Machine To Dyke Selling F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Comment on the Vegetable by Drackman The Scottsboro Boys American Letter To Sleep Love on a Train Man's Home Companion Lump The Spoken Word Winter Road George Washington Atomic Energy V. A Children's Story Monrovia VI. The Land 1 Introduction: Highways Should Be Rightways It Used to Be Why These? The Extremes Are Great 2: The Northeast New York The Brilliant Brotherhood: New York City during the Mystical Experience of 1926 Doylestown The Presence of a Field 3: The South Night 4: Chicago 5: New Mexico To the Land of the People Rainbow The Dust of Abiquiu Taos Night New Mexico after India Part of the Universe Santa Fe Sequence 6: California Caromb America's Proposed Riveria: A Chicagoan's Impressions of Los Angeles VII. Epilogue Music A Double Portrait To Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Tired, I have come to the door Bibliography
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A useful addition to African-American literary scholarship....Properly emphasizes what Toomer critics have identified as the major themes of his life and work.
"A useful addition to African-American literary scholarship....Properly emphasizes what Toomer critics have identified as the major themes of his life and work."--Choice "A valuable addition to the body of Toomer's work."--Georgia Historical Quarterly "Toomer was one of the most talented authors of the Harlem Renaissance, and he made valuable contributions to modernist literature, unfortunately forgotten, that this volume helps make clear."--Mary Ann Wimsatt, University of South Carolina "Continuing a decade's work on Jean Toomer's literary development, Frederick L. Rusch's exemplary edition of the unpublished works invites us to follow the work of a writer whose project was no less than defining the subjective creation of a multi-cultural American."--John M. Reilly, State University of New York at Albany "Valuable supplementary material from one of the most important African-American writers of all time. This will help to re-establish his worth and make him more widely known and appreciated."--Dennis Brutus, University of Colorado "A valuable addition to the primary source materials on Toomer."--Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University "A useful addition to African-American literary scholarship....Properly emphasizes what Toomer critics have identified as the major themes of his life and work."--Choice "A valuable addition to the body of Toomer's work."--Georgia Historical Quarterly "Toomer was one of the most talented authors of the Harlem Renaissance, and he made valuable contributions to modernist literature, unfortunately forgotten, that this volume helps make clear."--Mary Ann Wimsatt, University of South Carolina "Continuing a decade's work on Jean Toomer's literary development, Frederick L. Rusch's exemplary edition of the unpublished works invites us to follow the work of a writer whose project was no less than defining the subjective creation of a multi-cultural American."--John M. Reilly, State University of New York at Albany "Valuable supplementary material from one of the most important African-American writers of all time. This will help to re-establish his worth and make him more widely known and appreciated."--Dennis Brutus, University of Colorado "A valuable addition to the primary source materials on Toomer."--Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University
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ISBN
9780195083293
Publisert
1995
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

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