The Lives of Jean Toomer
Title | The Lives of Jean Toomer PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Earl Kerman |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Total Pages | 436 |
Release | 1989-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780807115480 |
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Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
Title | Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | John Chandler Griffin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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This is a comprehensive biography on Jean Toomer who was known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance. The author delves into the esoteric nature of many of Toomer's life experiences.
Cane
Title | Cane PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Toomer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | African Americans |
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The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States.
The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
Title | The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Jones |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2014-02-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1469616416 |
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 The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness.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.
Jean Toomer, Artist
Title | Jean Toomer, Artist PDF eBook |
Author | Nellie Y. McKay |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936
Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History
Title | Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Scruggs |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 151280665X |
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.
A Drama of the Southwest
Title | A Drama of the Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Toomer |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN | 0826356389 |
This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.