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Jean Toomer - Race, Repression, and Revolution (Paperback)
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Jean Toomer - Race, Repression, and Revolution (Paperback)
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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 his masterwork in its
immediate historical context. In Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and
Revolution, Barbara Foley explores Toomer's political and
intellectual connections with socialism, the New Negro movement,
and the project of Young America. Examining his rarely scrutinized
early creative and journalistic writings, as well as unpublished
versions of his autobiography, she recreates the complex and
contradictory consciousness that produced Cane.Foley's discussion
of political repression runs parallel with a portrait of repression
on a personal level. Examining family secrets heretofore unexplored
in Toomer scholarship, she traces their sporadic surfacing in Cane.
Toomer's text, she argues, exhibits a political unconscious that is
at once public and private.
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