...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...

...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 the...

...Carrie J. Preston Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse: H. D., Loy, and Toomer , by Vetter Lara , Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . 219 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review Reviews Religion and Science in the Making of Modernist Bodies Modernist...

...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...

... works by Gertrude Stein, Mary Antin, Jean Toomer, O. E. Rølvaag, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neal Hurston, among others, building on earlier insights to construct what ultimately reads like an extended conversation about the nature and limitations of our standard definition of...

... Dodge Luhan, Jean Toomer, Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, Herbert Croly, Muriel Draper, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Baggett writes: “With few ex­ ceptions the biographers and critics of those listed above fail to deal with this aspect of their subject s experience.”2 Rob Baker, a former ed­...

... (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...

... Harlem Renaissance,” offers a reading of Jean Toomer’s Cane and Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew, as well as the Harlem Renaissance more generally. Graham deftly avoids the sort of reductive reading that simply states the importance of music to the Harlem Renaissance...

... Wharton, Dreiser, and in some cases Toomer, Hutner gives us a lineup consisting of not only Wharton, Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis but also James Cabell, Booth Tarkington, Willa Cather, Jo- seph Hergesheimer, Ellen Glasgow, and Carl Van Vechten. These were the names most frequently cited by critics...

... the National Institute for Arts and Letters. The poet serves as editor-in-chief of the major modernist magazine The Dial during its glory years, publishing W. B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Paul Valéry, Jean Toomer, and Hart Crane, among others. Her circle of devoted...

... Renaissance (Toomer, Hughes, Hurston), established black dialect as an essential aspect of Anglo-American modernism. But while Stein, Pound, and Eliot made themselves “modern by acting black” (8), especially by writing in “black” dialect forms, enacting their literary “rebellion through racial...

..., James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and many others all created modern black poetry in ballad stanzas, preparing the way for Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, and Etheridge Knight. But although everything about the ballad itself and its status in African American cul- ture...

..., Wallace Thurman, Carl Van Vechten, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright, Kaplan writes that in modernist writing, the “Miss Anne” figure “almost always appears either as a fool or a monster” (2013, 23). “The more well-meaning or well-intentioned such women are,” Kaplan continues, “the...