| Contents |
Introduction -- "Song of the Son" -- Jean Toomer's racial self-identification: a note on the supporting materials -- New findings on Nathan Toomer and his first wife, Harriet Haslam / Kimberly N. Morgan -- The text of Cane -- Forward to the 1923 edition of Cane / Waldo Frank -- Map of Sparta, Georgia -- Backgrounds and contexts -- The Cane years / Jean Toomer -- Art in Washington / Jean Toomer -- Why I entered the Gurdjieff work / Jean Toomer -- Correspondence -- To Alain Locke (November 11, 1919) -- To Georgia Douglas Johnson (December 1919) -- To Georgia Douglas Johnson (January 7, 1920) -- To Georgia Douglas Johnson (February 20, 1920) -- To Alain Locke (December 24, 1920) -- To Alain Locke (January 26, 1921) -- To Alain Locke (November 8, 1921) -- To Alain Leroy Locke (November 24, 1921) -- To Waldo Frank (March 24, 1922) -- To Jean Toomer (April 25, 1922) / Waldo Frank -- To Waldo Frank (April 26, 1922) -- To Waldo Frank (August 21, 1922) -- To John McClure (July 22, 1922) -- To Claude McKay (July 23, 1922) -- To the editors of The Liberator (August 19, 1922) -- To Alain Locke (October 1, 1922) -- To Gorham B. Munson (October 31, 1922) -- To Sherwood Anderson (December 18, 1922) -- To Waldo Frank (December 1922) -- To Waldo Frank (December 12, 1922) -- To Sherwood Anderson (December 29, 1922) -- To Alain Locke (January 2, 1923) -- To Waldo Frank (early January 1923) -- To Waldo Frank (early January 1923) -- To Waldo Frank (early to mid-January 1923) -- To Horace Liveright (January 11, 1923) -- To Horace Liveright (February 27, 1923) -- To Horace Liveright (March 9, 1923) -- To Horace Liveright (September 5, 1923) -- To Countee Cullen (October 1, 1923) -- To Georgia O'Keefee (January 13, 1924) -- To James Weldon Johnson (July 11, 1930) -- Criticism -- Contemporary Reviews -- 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 -- Critical Interpretations -- Jean Toomer / Sterling A. Brown -- Gurdjieff in Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Introduction to the 1969 edition of Cane / Arna Bontemps -- The divided life of Jean Toomer / Alice Walker -- Blues ballad: Jean Toomer's "Karintha" / Gayl Jones -- Looking behind Cane / David Bradley -- A key to the poems in Cane / Bernard Bell -- Jean Toomer and the "New Negroes" of Washington / George B. Hutchinson -- May Howard Jackson and the development of Toomer's multiracial modernism / Laura Lorhan -- Jean Toomer's Washington and the politics of class: from "Blue Veins" to Seventh-Street rebels / Barbara Foley -- Cane in the magazines: race, form, and global periodical networks / Eurie Dahn -- "When the sun goes down": the ghetto pastoral mode in Jean Toomer's Cane / Donald M. Schaffer, Jr. -- Mary Turner's blues / Julie Buckner Armstrong -- Jean Toomer's Cane and the erotics of mourning / Jennifer D. Williams -- Circularity and fragmentation: the structure of modernism in Jean Toomer's Cane / Cindy H. Zhang -- [Frank, Toomer, and the Black enfleshment] / Benjamin Kahan and Madoka Kishi. |
