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Journal Article
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 (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...
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 (2003) 49 (1): 46–81.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Literature 49.1 Spring 2003 46
GurdjiefF and the Rope
tunately the connection between the two has not been adequately scru
tinized” (15). After a partial roll call of those “mesmerized” by GurdjiefF,
including Heap, Anderson, Katherine Mansfield, Mabel Dodge Luhan,
Jean Toomer, Waldo Frank...
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...
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 (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 (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
..., helped to move once-overlooked authors such as Mina Loy, Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer to the very heart of the modernist canon. The concluding chapter offers “an overview of the New Modernist Studies” that examines “the major nodes that now make a diffuse...
Journal Article
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...
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 (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
.... 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 (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... on its recurring flatness. Citing the work of male writers, including Rudolph 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...
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... parallels between Larsen’s novel Quicksand and the works of Frances E. W. Harper, Theodore Dreiser, William Dean Howells, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Stribling, Carl Van Vechten, and Jean Toomer. Although Brickhouse acknowledges that an early reviewer had noted that Wharton’s style informed Larsen’s, she does...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press . Woodson Jon . 1999 . To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi . ...
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