Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution

by Barbara Foley

Book Overview

The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching eyewitness portraits of Jim Crow violence, few seem to recognize how much Toomer's interest in class struggle, catalyzed by the Russian Revolution and the post-World War One radical upsurge, situate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252038444
• ISBN13: 9780252038440
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"