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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 (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Catherine Gunther Kodat Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 177–202.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and aesthetic, despite the paucity of extant materials from his pre- Cane period. Analyzing Jackson’s portrait bust of Jean Toomer, his essay “Art in Washington,” and the unpublished play Natalie Mann demonstrates that Toomer’s racial theorizing owes a considerable debt to Jackson, and that she served...
FIGURES
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 (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
... in the Caribbean. Born in British Guiana in 1898, Walrond lived in Barbados and Panama before moving to New York City in 1918, where he fell in with Harlem’s literary scene and published Tropic Death to much acclaim. Frequently compared to Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923), Tropic Death placed Walrond at the center...
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
... . 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, prose poems, or reflections. Cane contains...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 June 2001
...
imagines waiting for Joyce “as if he / bloomed there every dusk with
eye-patch and tilted hat / 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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the island: “If Providence were to watch over us,” said Cruso, “who would be left to pick the cotton and cut 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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the pirouettes of any pliant cane; Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise. We can evade you, and all else but the heart: What blame to us if the heart live on. Not averse to cliché, Crane holds up the most sentimental object of all, “the heart,” as the very thing that survives these hapless gestures...
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 (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
... naivete of Death Comes for the Archbishop . Nor is it that one should judge Cather’s art 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...
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
... : University of Illinois Press . 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...
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