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Cane by Jean Toomer, 1993-08-17 Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation by Therman B. O'Daniel, 1988-11 Essentials (Hill Street Classics.) by Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd, et all 2000-06-25 The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer by Jean Toomer, 1988-03-31 Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance by Michel Feith, 2000-12 Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane (Studies in African and African-American Culture) by Chezia Thompson-Cager, 2006-08-01 Jean Toomer (Twayne's United States Authors Series ; Tusas 389) by Brian Joseph Benson, Mabel Mayle Dillard, 1981-01 The Poetics of Rage: Wole Soyinka, Jean Toomer, and Claude McKay by Emmanuel E. Egar, 2005-04-06 Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist, 1923-1936 by Rudolph P. Byrd, 2010-08-01 A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writings by Jean Toomer, 1993-12-16 Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 (Studies in American Literature, 52) by John Chandler Griffin, 2002-05 To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance by Jon Woodson, 1999-05-01

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1. Jean Toomer
   Jean Toomer was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C, the son of a Georgian farmer. Though he passed for white during certain periods of his life, he was raised  
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2. Jean Toomer - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894–March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Jean Toomer December 26 March 30 ) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance Born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington, D.C. , Jean was of mixed racial and ethnic descent ( Dutch French Native American , Welsh, German, Jewish and African American ). His parents were Nina Pinchback and Nathan Toomer. He spent his childhood attending both all-white and all-black segregated schools. In his early years, Toomer resisted racial classifications and wished to be identified only as an American. Toomer attended six institutions of higher education between 1914 and 1917 (the University of Wisconsin, the Massachusetts College of Agriculture, the American College of Physical Training in Chicago, the University of Chicago, New York University, and the City College of New York) studying agriculture, fitness, biology, sociology, and history, but he never completed a degree. The readings that he would undertake and the lectures he attended during his college years shaped the direction his writing would take. After leaving college, Toomer published some short stories, devoted several months to the study of Eastern philosophies and took a job as a principal in Sparta, Georgia

3. Jean Toomer, Essentials Definitions And Aphorisms Jean Toomer
   jean toomer and primitivism, cane by jean toomer, analysis of fern by jean toomer, georgia dusk by jean toomer, jean toomer cane face, jean toomer public  
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   Extractions: Picture Nathan Eugene Toomer was born in Washington, DC on December 26, 1894. His surname was Pinchback but he used his father's last name as an adult and changed his name from Eugene to Jean when he began to write. Toomer spent his early years in Washington in the home of his grandparents. His grandfather was Pinkney Benton Pinchback, a prominent Louisiana politician of the Reconstruction era. They were racially mixed and could have been considered white but his grandfather identified with the blacks. Toomer considered himself a new type of man. He said he was mixed with "Scotch, Welsh, German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish and some dark blood." He said he was of the "human race". He spent much of his childhood in an affluent white section of Washington free of racial prejudice. After the death of Toomer's mother in 1909, the Pinchbacks experienced extreme financial losses and moved into a modest black section of Washington. Toomer attended the M Street High School, Washington Secondary School for Negroes. Toomer went to several universities studying various subjects and working different jobs. In 1914, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to study agriculture but he left. He entered the Massachusetts College of Agriculture but left after a short time. In 1916, he was enrolled at both the American College of Physical Training and the University of Chicago. He studied evolution and socialism. He worked at a shipyard, a store, sold cars and directed physical education.

4. Jean Toomer --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on Jean Toomer American poet and novelist.  
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   Extractions: Commonly Asked Questions About Jean Toomer Close Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Jean Toomer , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership. Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content. For more details about this feature, visit our

5. Jean Toomer Biography And Summary
   Jean Toomer biography with 843 pages of profile on Jean Toomer sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals.  
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   Extractions: Name: Jean Toomer Variant Name: Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer Birth Date: December 26, 1894 Death Date: March 30, 1967 Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Place of Death: Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American Gender: Male Occupations: writer

6. Honorees - Jean Toomer
   Jean Toomer spent barely eight weeks of his life in Georgia, in the fall of 1921. But this short visit in the homeland of a father he never knew  
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   Extractions: *Portrait courtesy of the Yale Collection of American Lit., Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. B I O G R A P H Y Jean Toomer spent barely eight weeks of his life in Georgia, in the fall of 1921. But this short visit in the homeland of a father he never knew - inspired him to write the Middle Georgia county of Hancock into American literary history. As the characters and landscape of "Sempter," the townspeople and surroundings of the community of Sparta form the Southern setting of Cane Toomer's acclaimed and influential novel of early twentieth-century African-American life. "Jean Toomer" was the adopted literary name of Nathan Pinchback Toomer, born December 26, 1894, in Washington, D.C. He was the son of Nina (Pinchback) Toomer and Nathan Toomer. His mother was the daughter of a noted Louisiana politician, while his father was a freedman farmer from Georgia, as well as the widower of a slave-born Georgia plantation heiress, Amanda America Dickson of Hancock County What young Toomer knew of his father he learned second-hand, however, as his father had abandoned the family and returned to Georgia soon after young Nathan was born.

7. Jean Toomer - Poems And Biography By AmericanPoems.com
   Born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington, D.C., Jean was of mixed racial descent and spent his childhood attending both allwhite and all-black segregated  
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   Extractions: January 27th, 2008 - we have 237 poets , 8034 poems and 16588 comments Biography of Jean Toomer Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894 –March 30, 1967) was a poet, novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington, D.C., Jean was of mixed racial descent and spent his childhood attending both all-white and all-black segregated schools. In his early years Toomer resisted racial classifications and wished to be identified only as an American. Toomer attended several colleges for short stints but did not take a degree. The readings that he would undertake and the lectures he attended during his college years shaped the direction his writing would take. After leaving college, Toomer published some short stories, devoted several months to the study of Eastern philosophies and took a job as a principal in Sparta, Georgia. The segregation Toomer experienced in the South lead Toomer to identify more strongly as an African-American. In 1923, Toomer published the experimental novel Cane , his most famous work. A series of poems and short stories about the Black experience in America

8. Jean Toomer - Poems, Biography, Quotes
   Free collection of all Jean Toomer Poems and Biography. See the best poems and poetry by Jean Toomer.  
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   Extractions: Born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington, D.C., Jean was of mixed racial descent and spent his childhood attending both all-white and all-black segregated schools. In his early years Toomer resisted racial classifications and wished to be identified only as an American. Toomer attended several colleges for short stints but did not take a degree. The readings that he woul.. Continue.. Some of Jean Toomer Poems November Cotton Flower

9. Jean Toomer
   Jean Toomer s greatest contribution to the Harlem Renaissance, and to American literature in general, was Cane (1922), an expertly intertwined series of  
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   Extractions: Biography Jean Toomer's greatest contribution to the Harlem Renaissance, and to American literature in general, was Cane (1922), an expertly intertwined series of poems, prose sketches, and a play dealing with African Americans and their connection with their folk heritage. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised by his mother and grandfather, Toomer began writing in his mid-twenties after he had abandoned his quest for a college degree. His stories and poems appeared in avant-garde journals like Broom and Prairie as well as the important African American journals such as the Liberator Crisis , and Opportunity . Though a large portion of Cane takes place in the South, Toomer's only prolonged experience in there was a four-month stint as superintendent in a black school in Georgia. Cane 's lyricism and its combined images of rural and urban blacks earned it immediate critical acclaim, but although Toomer continued to write, he never again achieved the success of that one distinctive collection. Explorations Cane (1923) is a complex book; like Eliot's

10. Jean Toomer: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati
    Mentions by Day. Posts tagged Jean Toomer per day for the past 30 days. Chart of results for Jean Toomer. See your posts here. To contribute to this page,  
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    Extractions: Find out what the market is buzzing about in Business Subscribe search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Fran§ais) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Portuguªs) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Espa±ol) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (T¼rk§e) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) http://pearlt40.wordpress.com/ 2007/ 10/ 28/ hello-world/ THE BLACK AMERICAN RENAISSANCE         Wilmot Max Ramsay Prof. Robert Johnson, Jr. Black Studies 100: “Introduction to Black Literature” (UMass/Boston) October 21, 1993 The Black American Renaissance Ever since I read the quoted passage for this assignment, I keep 90 days ago in Pearlt40’s Weblog No authority yet google_ad_type = "text"; google_max_num_ads = "4"; google_hints = "Jean Toomer"; google_ad_channel = "tags"; google_ad_format = "";

11. Jean Toomer
    Jean Toomer has had a very distinct background that reflects his views on the issue of racism. During the time that he published ,Blood Burning moon,  
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    Extractions: Racism Forgotten But Not Gone Views of racism have had their ups and downs in the past 200 years. There have been many American that have shared the same views of racism such as either taking no hatred against another person because of their race or sharing the view of hating another race because of their skin color. Authors modern and ones that date back to the 1700s have tried to portray their views on issues going on in society during that time period. They had many ways they would go about helping the reader understand their point of view on a certain topic like racism. Jean Toomer has had a very distinct background that reflects his views on the issue of racism. During the time that he published , Blood Burning moon , his views of racism differed greatly from the majority of society. Every story that is written, either modern or hundreds of years ago, have been shaped by the events and issues going on in that era. Even though society has progressed and the view of racism isn’t at the extreme it was years ago, his views just like many other authors’ views can still offend people in the modern culture. Blood Burning Moon In the short story Blood Burning Moon Slavery is something that can’t be forgotten as it never happened. The events taken place during the time that slavery was happening were horrific and for some people it might have been hard to even write about. After slavery was abolished slave owners still used black people as their property and had them work for them but they were called sharecroppers. These sharecroppers had just about as much social status as the slaves in the previous years and suffered just as much. There are many points of

12. The JEAN TOOMER PAGES
    Biography, portraits of toomer and his family, bibliography, three short stories and some poems.  
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13. Jean Toomer
    Biography, literary criticism of some of his poems, three articles by toomer.  
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14. PAL: Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
    Study guide leads off a chapter on the Harlem Renaissance.  
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    Extractions: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 9: Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present Study Questions MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... Home Page Source: Modern American Poetry For many, the literary renaissance in Harlem began in 1923 with the publication of Toomer's Cane . It was hailed as a masterpiece, as a fresh voice from a very promising young writer. This publication also brought Toomer in contact with other black intellectuals. However, his spiritual quest took him away from race issues; he studied and converted to the spiritual thought of the Russian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff and spent his time lecturing on mystical doctrines. His racial ambivalence and involvement with mysticism could explain his inability to recapture the promise of Cane Primary Works Cane Essentials An Interpretation of Friends Worship The Flavor of Man The Wayward and the Seeking (collection), 1980.

15. Jean Toomer
    Cane is jean toomer s acclaimed exploration of the American racial temperament of the 1920s. Using his own life as a model, toomer explores the issues of  
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    Extractions: For many, the literary renaissance in Harlem began with the publication of Cane . It was hailed as a masterpiece, as a fresh voice from a very promising young writer. This publication also brought Toomer in contact with other black intellectuals. However, his spiritual quest took him away from race issues; he studied and became converted to the spiritual thought of the Russian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff and spent his time lecturing on mystical doctrines. His racial ambivalence and involvement with mysticism could explain his inability to recapture the promise of Cane (Above text obtained from http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/toomer.html "Racially, I seem to have (who knows for sure) seven blood mixtures: French, Dutch, Welsh, Negro, German, Jewish, and Indian. One half of my family is definitely colored.... And, I alone, as far as I know, have striven for a spiritual fusion analogous to the fact of racial intermingling." –Jean Toomer

16. Jean Toomer Criticism
    jean toomer 1894–1967. (Born Nathan Eugene toomer) American short story writer, poet, and essayist. For further information on toomer s short fiction,  
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    Extractions: utmSetVar('lit_all'); Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page (Born Nathan Eugene Toomer) American short story writer, poet, and essayist. For further information on Toomer's short fiction, see SSC, Vol. 1. Toomer's Cane (1923) is one of the most admired and frequently studied literary creations of the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the 1920s that saw a flowering of American culture. Described as an amalgamation of stories, sketches, poetry, and drama, Cane is an intimate portrait of African-American life, depicting such themes as slavery, sexuality, and most importantly, self-identity. It is this latter theme, so often highlighted by critics, that forms the quest in Cane. Toomer's work is highly praised both for its rich use of symbol and myth and for its experiments with language and form, and is often cited as an extremely influential work in the canon of Black-American literature. Despite the encouragement of Sherwood Anderson, Hart Crane, and Waldo Frank, Toomer never again equaled the success of his initial work. Although he published several essays, poems, and stories in small-press periodicals during the more than thirty years of his subsequent writing, he never sold another book to a commercial publisher. Cane.

17. Jean Toomer
    A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on jean toomer, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed  
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    Extractions: A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Jean Toomer, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites Doreski, C.K. To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance, African American Review, Summer, 2001 Dow, William. "Always your heart": the "great design" of Toomer's Cane - Jean Toomer - Critical Essay, MELUS, Winter, 2002 Fike, Matthew A. Jean Toomer and Okot p'Bitek in Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" - Critical Essay, MELUS, Fall-Winter, 2000 Foley, Barbara. "In the land of cotton": economics and violence in Jean Toomer's 'Cane.' African American Review, Summer, 1998 Kodat, Catherine Gunther. To "Flash White Light from Ebony": The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer's Cane - Critical Essay, Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 2000 Pardlo, Gregory A.

18. The San Antonio College LitWeb Jean Toomer Page
    A jean toomer Reader Selected Unpublished Writings was edited by Frederick L. Rusch. Oxford ,1993.Also seeThe Wayward and the Seeking A Collection of  
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19. Jean Toomer — Infoplease.com
    toomer, jean, 1894–1967, American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work,  
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    Extractions: google_ad_client = 'pub-1894504138907931'; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; google_ad_format = '120x240_as'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_ad_channel =''; google_color_border = ['336699','B4D0DC','DFF2FD','B0E0E6']; google_color_bg = ['FFFFFF','ECF8FF','DFF2FD','FFFFFF']; google_color_link = ['0000FF','0000CC','0000CC','000000']; google_color_url = ['008000','008000','008000','336699']; google_color_text = ['000000','6F6F6F','000000','333333']; Encyclopedia Toomer, Jean, , American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work, Cane (1923), a collection of stories, poems, and sketches about black life in rural Georgia and the urban North. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

20. Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
    jean toomer (18941967). Contributing Editor Nellie Y. McKay. Classroom Issues and Strategies. toomer s style is difficult, especially in view of earlier  
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    Extractions: Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Contributing Editor: Nellie Y. McKay Toomer's style is difficult, especially in view of earlier African-American literature. To a large extent, Toomer abandoned the predominant naturalistic and realistic representation of the black experience to experiment with newer modernistic techniques. When they first approach these texts, students usually feel that it is well beyond their understandingthat Toomer is engaged in abstractions that are too difficult to comprehend. Have the students explore all the possibilities for a literal meaning of the metaphors and symbols. "Blood-Burning Moon" is less difficult for them because it has a traditional story line. In "Karintha," for instance, try to get them to see that Toomer is concerned with the sexual and economic oppression of women within their own communities where they should be safe from the former at least. These selections lend themselves to the visual imagination. Students may find it helpful to think of the "pictures" Toomer's images present as they read and try to understand, also, the written meanings these images present. Students respond positively to the poetic qualities of the writing, and they enjoy its visual aspects. They have difficulty interpreting the underlying themes and meanings, mainly because the language is seductive and leaves them ambivalent regarding the positive and negative qualities the writer intends to portray. It is best to lead them through one section by reading aloud in class and permitting them to use a number of methods (listening to the words, visualizing the images, etc.) to try to fathom what is going on.

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