...Ronald Dorris Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Theodicy of the Bacchic in the Poetry of Jean Toomer's Cane Ronald Dorris The Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, was an important historical moment for the creation and presentation of art by African Americans. It was during...

... twenties and early thirties. Bringing the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt into a new age-the age of the New Negro (as Alain Locke called it)-such literati as Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes became well known during the Renaissance. What they had...

..., Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Jean Toomer (the progenitors of modern black literature), Petesch posits several theories regarding the nature of their work. His conclusion is also true of black music, because their histories run side by side and casually intermingle. He says, "The imminence/threat...

... Literature. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989. Donald Petesch examines the literary, historical, and social contexts in which black literature emerged in America. Studying the works of Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Jean Toomer...

... Locke called it)-such literati as Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes became well known during the Renaissance. What they had in common, according to Cary Wintz, was a collective spirit gleaned from the culturally rich life of "the black metropolis" (as James Weldon...