Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History /

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scruggs, Charles
Otros Autores: VanDemarr, Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Temas:
Toomer, Jean, > 1894-1967 > Criticism and interpretation > History.
Toomer, Jean, > 1894-1967
1900-1999
Literature and history > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
African Americans in literature
Literature and history
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Witness of History
  • Chapter 1. Sparta
  • Chapter 2. The New Metropolitan
  • Chapter 3. Cultural Politics, 1920
  • Chapter 4. Whose America?
  • Chapter 5. Writing Cane
  • Chapter 6. The Gothic Detective Story
  • Chapter 7. Cane in the City
  • Chapter 8. The Black Man in the Cellar
  • Epilogue: "An Incredibly Entangled Situation"
  • Appendix: Jean Toomer's New York Call Articles
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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