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Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

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Jean Toomer is known today for the one successful book of his career, the novel Cane, published in 1923. Based in part upon his brief experience in the South as a school teacher, Cane was perhaps the first genuinely experimental novel by an African American writer responding to the liberating form vis mere of modernist narrative techniques as well as to the deepest and most primal roots of black folk culture in both the South and the North. As such, it reflects in its form the identity conflict that the novel's interwoven stories and poems address. Cane is unique for its blend of poetic language and psychological and moral realism; it established Toomer as one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. However, Toomer soon was absorbed in his own spiritual education. He eventually became a Quaker and spent most of the last part of his life in seclusion. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: J TOOMER, Toomer Jean, Jean Toomer, N. Jean Toomer

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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,254 eksemplarer
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver915 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 743 eksemplarer
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Bidragyder — 545 eksemplarer
The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (1925) — Bidragyder — 433 eksemplarer
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) — Bidragyder — 404 eksemplarer
The Black Poets (1983) — Bidragyder — 353 eksemplarer
African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 (1997) — Bidragyder — 249 eksemplarer
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Bidragyder — 169 eksemplarer
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Bidragyder — 162 eksemplarer
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (2000) — Bidragyder — 141 eksemplarer
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (2011) — Bidragyder — 111 eksemplarer
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (1976) — Bidragyder — 106 eksemplarer
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver98 eksemplarer
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Bidragyder — 98 eksemplarer
American Short Stories (1976) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver95 eksemplarer
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Bidragyder — 91 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
D.C. Noir 2: The Classics (2008) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2004) — Bidragyder — 57 eksemplarer
Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection (2011) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
Soulscript: Afro-American Poetry (1970) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance (1994) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (1994) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Graphic Classics: African-American Classics (2011) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
The Seas of God: Great Stories of the Human Spirit (1944) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
Black Theater USA : 45 Plays By Black Americans : 1847-1974 (1973) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
New American caravan : a yearbook of American literature (1936)nogle udgaver4 eksemplarer

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I was fascinated by parts of the book, not by others; but I cannot judge Jean Toomer who won praise for this.
 
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RickGeissal | 11 andre anmeldelser | Aug 16, 2023 |
Hard poems to read. Important stories.
 
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mykl-s | 11 andre anmeldelser | Aug 12, 2023 |
Interesting novel. It's a modernist novel. Can't really think of much to say other than I liked the writing.
 
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Ghost_Boy | 11 andre anmeldelser | Aug 25, 2022 |
Only read selections of it.
 
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