A Drama of the Southwest: The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play

by Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was a modernist writer, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly part of the literary and artistic community that grew up around Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, New Mexico. This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time. The play provides a vivid glimpse into the social world of the artists who mined Taos for creative and spiritual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826356389
• ISBN13: 9780826356383
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"