{"product_id":"jean-toomer-harlem-renaissance","title":"Jean Toomer \u0026 Harlem Renaissance","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Jean Toomer's novel \u003ci\u003eCane\u003c\/i\u003e has been hailed as the harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and as a model for modernist writing, yet it eludes categorization and its author remains an enigmatic and controversial figure in American literature. The present collection of essays by European and American scholars gives a fresh perspective by using sources made available only in recent years, highlighting Toomer's bold experimentations, as well as his often ambiguous responses to the questions of his time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Some of the essays achieve this through close readings of the text, leading to new and challenging interpretations of Toomer's transcendence of genres and styles. Others show how the publication of \u003ci\u003eCane\u003c\/i\u003e and his later writings placed Toomer at the heart of contemporary ideological and artistic debates: race and identity, the negro writer and the white literary world, primitivism and modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43574202990774,"sku":"9780813528465","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780813528465_e5d2a3f4-a6fd-4106-ac31-e028a80d36e5.jpg?v=1727259285","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/jean-toomer-harlem-renaissance","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}