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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Catherine Gunther Kodat To “Flash White Light from Ebony”:
The Problem of Modernism
in Jean Toomer’s Cane
Catherine Gunther Kodat
The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from
insufficiency to anticipation—and which...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Paul Stasi © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane
A “Synchronous but More Subtle Migration”:
Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane
Paul Stasi
In part 1 of Cane we encounter a poem that has seemed to many of
its readers to articulate...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): vi–vii.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Cary Nelson © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Twentieth-Century Literature’s
Andrew J. Kappel Prize
in Literary Criticism, 2009
The winner of this year’s prize is Paul Stasi’s “A ‘Synchronous but More
Subtle Migration’: Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane.” The
judge is Cary...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of how these corpses are then treated differently depending on their race, class, or gender. The most compelling of these analyses is found in the book’s second chapter, “Autopsy-Optics: Jean Toomer’s Cane through the Photographic Lens,” which primarily explores how Toomer’s writing engages directly...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
... approximately six years studying
with Georges Gurdjieff in France, joining Gurdjieff’s compound in 1924,
just a year after Cane was published (86). Toomer described Gurdjieff’s
methods as a “complete system, a way of life to which I could dedicate
body, mind, and soul” (91). Vetter details one...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 401–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., during an extended close reading of Jean
Toomer’s Cane, Sollors argues that the text consciously eschews stable
generic categorization, resisting a
nostalgic wish for a return to traditional country values . . . [Go-
ing] on, and going on to create, searching for aesthetic wholeness...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
... (2003) 12—31
Kodat, Catherine Gunther. “To ‘Flash White Light from Ebony’:The Problem
of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane.” 46.1 (2000): 1-19
Kot, Paula. “Speculation,Tourism, and The Professor’s House. ” 48.4 (2002):
393-426
Lewis, Wyndham. See Reynolds; Stanfield
Literary theory...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 504–512.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Fitzgerald as a potential starting point for future
critics of musical literature.
Graham’s next chapter, “Make Them Black and Bid Them Sing: Musi-
cal Poetry, Racial Transformation, and the Harlem Renaissance,” offers a
reading of Jean Toomer’s Cane and Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues and
Fine...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 46–81.
Published: 01 March 2003
....
While the Rope writers often allowed their texts to serve as vehi
cles for Gurdjieff’s theories, they did so more directly and yet less heavy-
handedly than Gurdjieff’s male pupils did, avoiding both the
self-valorization and didacticism that flawed Toomer’s post -Cane novels...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 53–74.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... In this article, I use this edition exclusively. 7 To a certain degree, Tierra is somewhat comparable in form to Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923) and Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time (1925), especially in the interstitial, thematically connective sections between the main stories, whether these be poems...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 June 2001
... / rakish cane on one shoulder” and describes
the Irish Troubles as “still splitting heirs, dividing a Shem from a Shaun”
(199). He also praises Joyce directly, calling him “our age’s Omeros, un
dimmed Master” (200) and acknowledging his own indebtedness blest
myself in his voice” (200...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the sugar-cane? For the business of the world to prosper, Providence must sometimes wake and sometimes sleep, as lower creatures do.” He saw that I shook my head, so went on. “You think I mock Providence. But perhaps it is the doing of Providence that Friday finds himself on an island under a lenient master...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
... by tallying up instances of irrational oceanic visions. Indeed, the irrationality of such instances is often subtle. Unlike the more eccentric modernist variants of Leopold Bloom, Benjamin Compson, Cane ’s spectatorial artist, or even Nick Adams, Cather’s second naivete relies on a resemblance...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
... along with his cane and
his umbrella” (185) he surely knew that the relinquished umbrella had
functioned as a symbol of codified behavior in cultural institutions for
decades.
In his 1858 essay, “Please to Leave Your Umbrella,” Charles Dickens
argues with an imaginary interlocutor over why...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 214–237.
Published: 01 June 2000
... and adulation of empire in The Mimic
Men that I’ve omitted in my effort to adduce a unified work? Certainly there
is sympathy for empire in the penultimate London episode with Lord Stock-
well, the sugar-cane estate owner who gains Singh’s respect by telling him
he knew and admired Singh’s father (225...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2001
... afterwards I was gazing at a photograph of
Sir Oswald Mosley in some illustrated paper— there he was
standing to attention stiff as a puppet, clutching his cane, his
heels together, with an enormous topper upon his mustachioed
dandy’s head— I had a sudden brain-wave...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... . Sunder Rajan Kaushik . 2006 . Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Taylor Julie . 2015 . “ Animating Cane: Race, Affect, History, and Jean Toomer .” In Modernism and Affect , edited by Taylor Julie , 131 – 47 . Edinburgh...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Prince” and visits “one of His Majesty’s Ships” (120). Upon discovering the deception, the captain seeks out the woman, who is “now disguised as a private gentleman” and demands “that honour should be satisfied.” After trading symbolic strokes with a cane, the two retire to a restaurant, get drunk...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
... plantation slavery, Hochschild observes that, “Caribbean slavery was, by every measure, far more deadly than slavery in the American South. This was not because Southern masters were … kind and gentle … but because cultivating sugar cane by hand was—and still is—one of the hardest ways of life on earth...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2008
...).The road is “opposite” their
house in a double sense: (i) at odds, opposed to the conventional, leading
away from the confining interior to the liberating unknown; and (ii) it is
adjacent, proximate, not distant, but close, located intimately to the self.
Like the boy’s father who canes...