21. Heath Anthology Of American LiteratureJean Toomer - Author Page As a young man, jean toomer took a long time choosing a profession. He attended six separate institutions of higher education, but never graduated. http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/too

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Jean Toomer Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Nathan Eugene Toomer was the only child of Nina Pinchback, and her husband, Nathan Toomer. Soon after his son’s birth, however, Nathan, Sr., disappeared, and Nina was forced, through economic need, to return to live with her father, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, who had been a controversial figure in Louisiana Reconstruction politics. She remarried in 1906 and took her son with her to New Rochelle, New York. Following her untimely death in 1909, Toomer returned to Washington and remained there until he left for college in 1914. Thereafter, intermittently, he lived for varying periods of time with his grandparents, until their deaths in the 1920s. As a young man, Jean Toomer took a long time choosing a profession. He attended six separate institutions of higher education, but never graduated. However, even as a child, he enjoyed literature, and as early as when he lived in New York, he attempted to write. In 1919 he made up his mind to pursue a literary career.

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HowStuffWorks.com RSS Make HowStuffWorks your homepage Get Newsletter Search HowStuffWorks and the web: Encyclopedia Humanities Literature American ... Fiction Writers Learn about American Fiction Writers and get information on topics related to American Fiction Writers. Related Categories: REFERENCE LINKS PRINT EMAIL Toomer, Jean Toomer, Jean (1894-1967), was an African American writer. He is best known for Cane (1923), a book of poems, short stories, sketches, and a play about black people in the North and the South. African American life in Cane is marked by frustration and tragedy but also by a hunger for spiritual integrity and a responsiveness to beauty. The work is noted for its poetic and evocative images of Southern life. Cane established Toomer as a leading American writer of the 1920's. The book also inspired authors of the Harlem Renaissance, an important period in black literary history. Related Topics: Stone, Irving (1903-1989), was an American biographer and novelist. His first important work was Lust for Life (1934), a novel about Vincent van... Crichton, KRY tuhn, Michael (1942-...), is an American author whose novels weave new technological possibilities and current social issues into...

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From the Editor Charles Drew, Jean Toomer, Julian Bond and "Choices" By Charles Michael Byrd (Photo by Lynn Goldsmith Last month's "Letters to the Editor" produced a white-hot argument between A.D. Powell and Heather Aston over Dr. Charles Drew (1904-1950) and the choices he and others like him had and made relative to "racial" self-identification. Dr. Drew clearly was a blended or mixed-race individual, though he identified as black . Ms. Aston asserted that any attempt to identify Dr. Drew otherwise would be revisionist, as he never publicly called himself anything else. With sincere respect to Heather, however, her technically correct argument is disingenuous. Owing to Jim Crowism and pressures from within the black community, people like Dr. Drew, Walter White, Jean Toomer, Anatole Broyard and countless others had two choices be black or "pass for white ." Those who were not light enough for the latter didn't even have that choice. Now, many hit the ground running with a black identity, never questioning it, the instant they crossed the threshold of the channel of life. Others spurned blackness and pursued careers as members of the Caucasian persuasion, and it is my personal opinion that

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28. Jean Toomer (1897-1967) American Writer. (18971967) American writer. jean toomer was born Nathan Pinchback toomer in Washington DC He wrote short stories like Bona and Paul and Withered Skin of http://classiclit.about.com/od/toomerjean/Toomer_Jean.htm

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Home Search Indexes E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Jean Toomer (1894-1967) born on Dec 26 US "author, poet". "He was the "Harlem Renaissance" writer who wrote "Cane", 1933." Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life. Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. "Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable." We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them. Published Sources for the above Quotations: F: c. 1951. R: ""Essentials: Definitions and Aphorims," 1931." A: "In "The Lives of Jean Toomer," by Cynthia Kerman and Richard Eldridge, 1987."

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34. Jean Toomer's Essentials The short sayings, aphorisms, in jean toomer s Essentials can change the way you think. http://africanamericanlit.suite101.com/article.cfm/jean_toomers_essentials

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35. Hackwriters.com - Cane By Jean Toomer - Review By Dan Schneider I’d long known jean toomer as a famed poet from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance era, and found his poetry to be interesting, at best. http://www.hackwriters.com/Cane.htm

Index Welcome About Us Contact Us ... Previous Issue The International Writers Magazine Book Review Cane, by Jean Toomer Dan Schneider A correspondent piece in part two is Theater Kabnis is about an attempted self-exorcism, in which an educated black man, a teacher, returns to Georgia, yet cannot leave his past behind, and cannot easily cope with the world he encounters. It really has to be read straight through to be enjoyed fully, for its end gleams a bit of hope in an otherwise pessimistic tale. http://www.Cosmoetica.com Once upon a time in the West - Sergio Leone A Dan Schnieder review Joyce Carol Oates A Dan Schneider critique The New World Dan Schnieder Disgrace Dan Schnieder A Very Long Engagement A Dan Schnieder review Why We Fight A Dan Schnieder review More Reviews Home

36. Jean Toomer And The Terrors Of American History | Scruggs, Charles And Lee VanDe jean toomer s Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an AfricanAmerican writer. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/1717.html

Search the full text of this book: Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr shopping cart Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large. Toomer's own life reflected that internal conflict, and he has been an ambiguous figure in literary history, an author who wrote a text that had a tremendous impact on African American authors but who eventually tried to distance himself from Cane and from his identification as a black writer. In Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History Charles Scruggs is Professor of English at the University of Arizona. Lee VanDemarr is a freelance writer and editor. View your shopping cart Literature, Cultural Studies Penn Press University of Pennsylvania

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Home Timeline Editors' Choice Biographies ... Back To Britannica Toomer, Jean Jean Toomer born Dec. 26, 1894, Washington, D.C., U.S. died March 30, 1967, Doylestown, Pa. Toomer (right) with his wife, Margery Latimer, 1932 UPI/Corbis-Bettmann American poet and novelist. After attending the University of Wisconsin and the City College of New York, Toomer taught briefly in the Sparta, Ga., public schools and then turned to lecturing and writing. Cane (1923; reprinted 1967) is an experimental novel which celebrates African Americans through the symbol of the title. It is considered his best work. Toomer also wrote extensively for the Dial and other little magazines and was the author of several experimental plays. In 1926 he attended the Gurdjieff Institute in France, dedicated to the expansion of consciousness and meditation, and upon his return led Gurdjieff groups in Harlem and Chicago in the late 1920s and early '30s. He began a similar institution in Portage, Wis., in 1931. Although influential on black writers, only since his death has he been recognized as a writer of note, primarily for Cane.

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var pid=12503; var am_invisible=1; Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance Bookstore Subject List SUBJECT LIST: A - E (New Books Added Daily) African American Studies Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance Price: Author: Edited by Genevive Fabre and Michel Feith Subject: Literary Studies/African American Studies/American Studies Paper ISBN Cloth ISBN Pages: Description: An innovative collection that explores how Jean Toomer's literary masterpiece, Cane , provides insight into the Harlem Renaissance "Ably introduced by Fabre and Feith, the twelve essays by new and established scholars from Europe and the U.S. revisit the debates about art and aesthetics, politics, race, and cultural identity that have shaped Toomer scholarship over the past decades. . . . An engaging collection of essays, this book is an excellent contribution to American and African American studies. Recommended." Choice Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance offers insightful and controversial new interpretations of Toomer's elusive masterpiece in the context of both the Harlem Renaissance and Anglo-American modernism."Cheryl Wall, author of Women of the Harlem Renaissance Jean Toomer's novel Cane 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.

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