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The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 by Mark Whalan (2006, Hardcover)

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ISBN
9781572334700
EAN
9781572334700
Book Title
Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924
Item Length
9in
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Publication Year
2006
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1in
Author
Mark Whalan
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Topic
Letters, American / General
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Number of Pages
250 Pages

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Considered deeply controversial because of his experimental writing style and complicated racial heritage, Jean Toomer was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance and in the twentieth-century modernist movement. Toomer has been the focus of much research, and over the years, his letters have been widely cited by specialists on the literature of the period.The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 is the first-ever annotated collection of the author's correspondence. The letters included in the volume-most of which are in the Beinecke Library at Yale University-were written in the five years surrounding Toomer's publication of his seminal work, Cane. As such, they lend unique insight into the life, aesthetics, politics, and work of a central figure in American literature of the early twentieth century.Mark Whalan's compilation offers a vital document for understanding the contexts, intellectual debates, and tensions undergirding Toomer's work, including his simultaneous feelings of attraction to and estrangement from rural Southern life, the influence of technology on race and urban existence in America, and the contradictory pulls of folk culture and modernist experimentation. The collection also charts the motives underlying Toomer's abandonment of the style that distinguished Cane, and his growing fascination with the teachings of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in 1924.On a more personal level, Toomer's struggles with creative isolation and the small world of black Washington society-and later with the New York literary avant garde-are made evident, as are his intense and often domineering relationships with women. His correspondents constituted a who's who of 1920s intellectual life, including Alain Locke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Countée Cullen, Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Lewis Mumford, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe, and Hart Crane.A singular addition to Toomer scholarship, The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 is an invaluable resource for students of the Harlem Renaissance and literary modernism.

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Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
ISBN-10
1572334703
ISBN-13
9781572334700
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50696992

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Book Title
Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924
Author
Mark Whalan
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Letters, American / General
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
250 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3539.O478z48 2006
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-032887
Dewey Decimal
813/.52 B
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
22

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