Jean Toomer : Writer for a New America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, George.

Series:

Black Lives Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was among the most influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance, inspiring generations of Black writers with his 1923 modernist masterwork Cane.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

PART I. AMONG THE "COLORED ARISTOCRACY"

CHAPTER 1. Aristocrats of Color

CHAPTER 2. Bacon Street

CHAPTER 3. "My Life Breaks Madly"

CHAPTER 4. "What Was I?"

CHAPTER 5. Death and Rebirth

PART II. A NEW MAN

CHAPTER 6. Among the Radicals

CHAPTER 7. The True American

CHAPTER 8. The Ghosts of Sparta

CHAPTER 9. Superman in Training

CHAPTER 10. Cane Comes Together

CHAPTER 11. Not a Negro

PART III. THE WORK

CHAPTER 12. G. I. Gurdjieff &amp

Co

CHAPTER 13. At the Prieuré des Basses Loges

CHAPTER 14. Bringing "the Work" to America

CHAPTER 15. A Birth Above the Body

CHAPTER 16. Spreading the Love

CHAPTER 17. "An Ascetic and a Don Juan"

CHAPTER 18. The Portage Experiment

PART IV. THE AMERICAN RACE

CHAPTER 19. With Margery Latimer

CHAPTER 20. With Georgia O'Keeffe

CHAPTER 21. With Marjorie Content

CHAPTER 22. Psychologic

CHAPTER 23. On the Farm

CHAPTER 24. Passing Through India

CHAPTER 25. The Forties Among Friends

CHAPTER 26. The Claim of Blood

CHAPTER 27. "I Have Put on Too Much of an Act"

EPILOGUE

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Hutchinson, George Jean Toomer

ISBN:

9780300291421

9780300291414

OCLC:

1610748409