{"title":"Jean Toomer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean Toomer\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique blend of poetic prose and rich storytelling that explores themes of identity, culture, and the American experience. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers into a profound literary journey that challenges conventional narrative forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBridging the realms of general fiction and educational insight, Toomer's writing holds appeal for both literary enthusiasts and those seeking thought-provoking reflections on society and human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cane-by-jean-toomer-9780393931686","title":"Cane","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e remains an innovative literary work—part drama, part poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Second Edition begins with the editors' introduction, a major work of scholarship that places Toomer within the context of American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. The introduction provides groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer and examines his complex, contradictory racial position, as well as his own pioneering views on race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrative materials include government documents containing contradictory information on Toomer's race, several photographs of Toomer, and a map of Sparta, Georgia—the inspiration for the first and third parts of \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e. The edition reprints the 1923 foreword to \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e by Toomer’s friend Waldo Frank, which helped introduce Toomer to a small but influential readership. Revised and expanded explanatory annotations are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Backgrounds and Sources\" collects a wealth of autobiographical writing that illuminates important phases in Jean Toomer’s intellectual life, including a central chapter from \u003cem\u003eThe Wayward and the Seeking\u003c\/em\u003e and Toomer's essay on teaching the philosophy of Russian psychologist and mystic Georges I. Gurdjieff, \"Why I Entered the Gurdjieff Work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume also reprints thirty of Toomer's letters from 1919–30, the height of his literary career, to correspondents including Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Claude McKay, Horace Liveright, Georgia O'Keeffe, and James Weldon Johnson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn unusually rich \"Criticism\" section demonstrates deep and abiding interest in \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e. Five contemporary reviews—including those by Robert Littell, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke—suggest its initial reception. From the wealth of scholarly commentary on \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e, the editors have chosen twenty-one major interpretations spanning eight decades, including those by Langston Hughes, Robert Bone, Darwin T. Turner, Charles T. Davis, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, Barbara Foley, Mark Whalan, and Nellie Y. McKay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Chronology, new to the Second Edition, and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853248286956,"sku":"9780393931686","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6397743482328.jpg?v=1759192737"},{"product_id":"cane-by-jean-toomer-9780871402103","title":"Cane","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1923, Jean Toomer's \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e is an innovative literary work—part drama, part poetry, part fiction—powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire. The northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis iconic work of American literature is published with a new afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University. They provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the context of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and examine his shifting claims about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a scientific or biological concept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853248450796,"sku":"9780871402103","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6517613482498.jpg?v=1759192755"},{"product_id":"cane-by-jean-toomer-9781324088059","title":"Cane","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Norton Critical Edition includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA revised and expanded introduction, featuring new archival discoveries, and annotations by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Jesse McCarthy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThirteen illustrations related to Toomer's life, which are new to the Third Edition, and the map of Sparta, Georgia, that accompanies the text.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThirty-five background selections that feature additional writings by Toomer and extensive excerpts from his personal correspondence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTwenty-five critical responses—nine of which are new to the Third Edition—from contemporary and modern critics examining important themes in the work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA chronology of Toomer's life and a selected bibliography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e by Jean Toomer presents an innovative fusion of poetry and prose that explores African American life in the early 20th century. This edition offers an invaluable insight into the world of Jean Toomer through comprehensive critical and contextual resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470227489004,"sku":"9781324088059","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324088059-cane.jpg?v=1775214175"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/jean-toomer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}