Jean Toomer

Author : Robert B. Jones,Margot Toomer Latimer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469616414

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The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer by Robert B. Jones,Margot Toomer Latimer Pdf

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 The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness.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.

Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : African Americans
ISBN : IND:30000053370379

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Cane by Jean Toomer Pdf

The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States.

Author : Charles Scruggs,Lee VanDemarr
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812234510

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Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History by Charles Scruggs,Lee VanDemarr Pdf

In Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History, Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr examine original sources to show how the cultural wars of the 1920s influenced the shaping of Toomer's writing and subsequent efforts to escape the racial definitions of American society.

Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1572334703

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The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 by Jean Toomer Pdf

"Mark Whalen's compilation offers a vital document for understanding the contexts, intellectual debates, and tensions undergirding Toomer's work, including his simultaneous feelings of attraction to and estrangement from rural southern life, the influence of technology on race and urban existence in America and the contradictory pulls of folk culture and modernist experimentation. The collection also charts the motives underlying Toomer's abandonment of the style that distinguished Cane, and his growing fascination with the teachings of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in 1924."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Chezia Thompson-Cager
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820424927

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Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane by Chezia Thompson-Cager Pdf

Cane one of the major works of the Harlem Renaissance and Jean Toomer's imagist masterpiece, is now a part of the canon in Afro-American literature. Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane is a unique literary tool that explores the brilliance and far-sighted vision of Toomer, allowing Cane to be taught holistically as a discovery process, using the blues motif and the poetic essay. This book's text and figures ground a discussion of Cane's enigmatic and figurative language, connecting the Harlem Renaissance to the Negritude Movement and to later Afro-centric literary movements. This book also reviews P.B.S. Pinchback's legacy as a non-Negro, able to pass easily in white society, the influence of Ouspensky, H. L Mencken's critical work, The Paris Brotherhood, and «Saccaharum officinarum-G.» Like the lunar arcs dividing Cane, the book works as an instructional map. The pictures from the first complete production also tell a remarkable story.

Author : Gerry Carlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847603340

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Reading Jean Toomer's 'Cane' by Gerry Carlin Pdf

Jean Toomer's Cane (1923) is regarded by many as a seminal work in the history of African American writing. It is generally called a novel, but it could more accurately be described as a collection of short stories, poems and dramatic pieces whose stylistic indeterminacy is part of its unique appeal. The ambiguities and seeming oddities of Toomer's text make Cane a difficult work to understand, which is why this lucid, accessible guide is so valuable. Exploring some of the difficulties that both the writer and his work embody, Gerry Carlin offers an enthralling account of Toomer's eloquent and exquisite expression of the African American experience. The Author Dr Gerry Carlin is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton. He teaches, researches and has published in the areas of modernism, critical theory, and the literature and culture of the 1960s.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410359346

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A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410356314

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A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Reapers" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410341679

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A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Blood-Burning Moon" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Blood-Burning Moon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410342379

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A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Cane" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Cane," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638266000

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Beauty in Jean Toomer’s 'Cane' by Anonim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A (1), Southern Connecticut State University (English Department), course: The Harlem Renaissance, language: English, abstract: Jean Toomer is one of the leading figures in the Harlem Renaissance. His major contribution to literature is Cane, a novel comprised of poetry and prose. Cane’s structure is of three parts. The first third of the book is devoted to the black experience in the Southern farmland. The characters inhabiting this portion of the book are faced with an inability to succeed. The second part of Cane is more urban oriented and concerned with Northern life. The writing style throughout is much the same as the initial section with poetry interspersed with stories. The concluding third of the novel is a prose piece entitled “Kabnis” and can be regarded as a synthesis of the earlier sections. Cane is therefore designed as a circle. Aesthetically, it goes from simple forms to complex ones and then back to simple forms. Regionally, it goes from the South up into the North, and back into the South again. The emphasis of Cane is on characters as well as on setting. The sections entitled “Karintha,” “Becky,” “Carma,” “Fern,” “Esther,” “Rhobert,” “Avey,” and “Bona and Paul” illustrate psychological realism and truths about human nature. The reader is drawn into the characters’ lives, and learns by sharing their everyday trials and feelings. Their characterizations become indistinguishably merged with the landscape that surrounds them. Characteristically, beauty functions as a deceptive tool in Cane. Flowers, women, and the word, all of which generally represent beauty, are reduced to emblems lacking dimension in Toomer’s text. Meaning is flawed and violated. The reader is intentionally deceived by the forms of beauty and left with absence instead of significance. By means of linking beautiful images with violent, explosive, and disturbing thematic openings, Toomer confuses his readers’ sense of meaning. In Cane, Toomer moves the reader with deeply beautiful and intricate language by exploring many different kinds of beauty, such as the abstract qualities of aestheticism, the intimacy of nature’s beauty and the immediacy of human beauty. However, though Toomer begins many of his pictures with seemingly beautiful imagery or qualifies a female character in his writing by her beauty, the breakdown of the aesthetic within his work is widespread. Although beauty seems to be in proportion with reality it is rather distorted. It gives way to nightmarish images and relationships. [...]

Author : Barbara Foley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252084799

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Jean Toomer by Barbara Foley Pdf

The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching eyewitness portraits of Jim Crow violence, few seem to recognize how much Toomer's interest in class struggle, catalyzed by the Russian Revolution and the post–World War One radical upsurge, situate his masterwork in its immediate historical context. In Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution, Barbara Foley explores Toomer's political and intellectual connections with socialism, the New Negro movement, and the project of Young America. Examining his rarely scrutinized early creative and journalistic writings, as well as unpublished versions of his autobiography, she recreates the complex and contradictory consciousness that produced Cane.Foley's discussion of political repression runs parallel with a portrait of repression on a personal level. Examining family secrets heretofore unexplored in Toomer scholarship, she traces their sporadic surfacing in Cane. Toomer's text, she argues, exhibits a political unconscious that is at once public and private.

Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780195083293

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A Jean Toomer Reader by Jean Toomer Pdf

Jean Toomer achieved instant recognition as a critic and thinker in 1923 with the publication of his novel Cane, a harsh, eloquent vision of black American hardship and suffering. But because of his reclusive, introspective nature, Toomer's fame waned in later years, and today his other contributions to American thought and literature are all but forgotten. Now, this collection of unpublished writings restores a crucial dimension to our understanding of this important African American author. Thematically arranging letters, sketches, poems, autobiography, short stories, a play, and a children's story, Frederik Rusch offers insight into Toomer's mind and spirituality, his feelings on racial identity in America, and his attitudes toward and ideas about Cane. Rusch highlights Toomer's reflections on America, its people, landscape, and politics, reveals his significance for the problems and issues of today, and helps us understand Toomer not only as writer, but also as social critic, prophet, mystic, and idealist. Exploring Toomer's attempts to find self-realization and transcend social and cultural definitions of race, this book offers a unique view of the United States through the life of one of its most significant and fascinating intellectuals.

Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521673682

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The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance by George Hutchinson Pdf

This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.

Author : John Chandler Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002944446

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Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 by John Chandler Griffin Pdf

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.