Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith.

Other author Fabre, Geneviève.
Other author Feith, Michel, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967--Criticism and interpretation.
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.

Contents Tight-lipped "Oracle": around and beyond Cane / Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith -- Jean Toomer's Cane: modernism and race in interwar America / Werner Sollors -- Identity in motion: placing Cane / George Hutchinson -- The poetics of passing in Jean Toomer's Cane / Charles-Yves Grandjeat -- "The waters of my heart": myth and belonging in Jean Toomer's Cane / Françoise Clary -- Feeding the soul with words: preaching and dreaming in Cane / Cécile Coquet -- "Karintha": a textual analysis / Monica Michlin -- Dramatic and musical structures in "Harvest song" and "Kabnis": Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Geneviève 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 -- The reception of Cane in France / Michel Fabre.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
LCCN 00025193
ISBN0813528453 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813528461 (pbk. : alk. paper)