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in May Howard Jackson and the Development of Jean Toomer’s Multiracial Modernism
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1 May Howard Jackson, Jean Toomer (1921). Photograph by Laura Lorhan. Courtesy of Virginia State University Special Collections and Archives.
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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 177–202.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Figure 1 May Howard Jackson, Jean Toomer (1921). Photograph by Laura Lorhan. Courtesy of Virginia State University Special Collections and Archives. ...
FIGURES
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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
...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...
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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 46–81.
Published: 01 March 2003
... 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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 401–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
... 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 modernism.
He...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of modernity as moral problems
to be confronted at the level of the individual.
This focus produces a fascinating alternative literary lineage. Instead of
the conventional 1920s roster, for example, of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and
Faulkner supplemented by Wharton, Dreiser, and in some cases Toomer...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., commercial graphic design and advertising, . . . jazz, the blues, and Western swing, . . . film, radio, and photography” (103). These approaches, they argue, helped to move once-overlooked authors such as Mina Loy, Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer to the very heart...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 37–78.
Published: 01 March 2013
...
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...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 99–110.
Published: 01 March 2014
... 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 friends comes to include Williams
and Pound, H. D. and Bryher, publisher and curator Monroe Wheeler...
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 (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Fisher, 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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., 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 corresponded to Brooks’s post-1967...
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