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OverviewThe 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 Examining his rarely scrutinized early creative and journalistic writings, as well as unpublished versions of his autobiography, she recreates the complex and contradictory consciousness that produced Cane.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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara FoleyPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.717kg ISBN: 9780252038440ISBN 10: 0252038444 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 19 June 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn indispensable book for Toomer scholars and a heavyweight assessment of the politics of the Harlem Renaissance. --Journal of American Studies All scholars researching the canonized texts of the Harlem Renaissance should read and critically align this study with other historical and cultural work discussing the period. Recommended. --Choice Barbara Foley has written a brilliant book on Toomer. I would go so far to say it is also the best researched book on Toomer that exists. . . . She illuminates Toomer's Cane in profound and lasting ways. --Charles Scruggs, co-author of Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History Barbara Foley has written a brilliant book on Toomer. I would go so far to say it is also the best researched book on Toomer that exists... She illuminates Toomer's Cane in profound and lasting ways. --Charles Scruggs, co-author of Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History All scholars researching the canonized texts of the Harlem Renaissance should read and critically align this study with other historical and cultural work discussing the period. Recommended. --Choice An indispensable book for Toomer scholars and a heavyweight assessment of the politics of the Harlem Renaissance. --Journal of American Studies Barbara Foley has written a brilliant book on Toomer. I would go so far to say it is also the best researched book on Toomer that exists. . . . She illuminates Toomer's Cane in profound and lasting ways. --Charles Scruggs, co-author of Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History All scholars researching the canonized texts of the Harlem Renaissance should read and critically align this study with other historical and cultural work discussing the period. Recommended. -- Choice Author InformationBarbara Foley is a professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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