41. Jean Toomer The Collected Poems of jean toomer (1988, poetry). Do you know something we don t? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile http://www.nndb.com/people/187/000113845/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Jean Toomer AKA Nathan Pinchback Toomer Born: 26-Dec Birthplace: Washington, DC Died: 30-Mar Location of death: Doylestown, PA Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Religion: Quaker Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Cane Father: Nathan Toomer Mother: Nina Pinchback (daughter of P. B. S. Pinchback Slept with: Margaret Naumberg Frank (wife of Waldo Frank Wife: Margery Latimer (descendant of John Cotton , m. Oct-1931, d. 16-Aug-1932, during childbirth) Daughter: Margery (b. 16-Aug-1932) Slept with: Georgia O'Keeffe Wife: Marjorie Content (m. Sep-1934) University: University of Wisconsin University: City College of New York University: University of Chicago University: Gurdjieff Institute, France (meditation and etc.) Author of books: Cane , novel) Essentials , aphorisms) Portage Potential The Wayward and the Seeking , anthology) The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer , poetry) Do you know something we don't?

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Find Publish Community Join ... Books Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Southern Imagination For many African American writers during the Harlem Renaissance, the rural south proved to be fertile ground for the literary imagination. Two writers who explored how the South formed a landscape in which Black people could be re-imagined within literary traditions were Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston. While many artists during the Harlem Renaissance believed that their art should serve a noble purpose in uplifting the race, both Toomer and Hurston were less interested in political statements as they were in, as poet Langston Hughes wrote in his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," presenting "our individual dark-skinned selves without fear and shame" (Patton 43-44). For Toomer, it was a matter of representing the beauty implicit in the "primitive" Blacks who populated the American south; for Hurston it was simply expressing and being her individualistic self, "achiev[ing] the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira" (Baym 1517). At any rate, American southern towns played a significant role in shaping their views on and their own work with representational images of African Americans.

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52. Jean Toomer Fairskinned, straight-nosed, straight-haired, African American Nathan Eugene Pinchback toomer was born in 1894 into a world dedicated to defining http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/biographies/MainBiographies/T/toomerjean/1.h

Toomer, Jean Toomer found this position ludicrous, especially since his olive complexion made most strangers think he was white American or French or Spanish. When he was mistaken for anything other than black, he found he was generally treated better than when people knew he had black ancestry, yet he was still the same man. Why should his thoughts and ideas be more respected when he was thought to be white? Why should his behavior be judged more harshly when he was thought to be black? Toomer didn't care to reason this blatant racism out. Instead, he rejected any classification except that of American, and like Walt Whitman, he tried to convince the rest of America that only by erasing racial prejudices could America be a true free democracy. Of course, no one listened to Toomer. As a matter of fact, Toomer, as a writer, was all but forgotten until a resurgence of interest in African American literature occurred during the 60s and 70s. Then, Toomer's novel Cane (1923) was rediscovered and Toomer was hailed as one of America's finest African American writers, something he wouldn't have liked. Toomer does give credit to getting in touch with his "Negro side" as the reason for the success of Cane. In the novel, which is really a collection of short stories, character sketches, poems, and songs, Toomer records the life of the poor black in Georgia. He shows how the soil, the scent of cane, and the Georgia dusk are regenerators and nurturers of the African American soul while the want of money, material positions, and sex are elements that can unbalance the soul and cause destruction. Cane is beautifully lyrical, and the language has meaning on so many different levels. It's well worth the read.

53. Portrait Of The Artist As High Priest Of Soul: Jean Toomer's "Cane." EJ105071 Portrait of the Artist as High Priest of Soul jean toomer. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=EJ105071

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Blue Hydrangeas Pages About this site. Favorite quotations. October 2006 M T W T F S S Categories Antebellum Author Avant-Garde Beat ... War Recent Posts Katherine Philips Robert Hayden Ted Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks ... Adrienne Rich Links Book Trust Famous Poets and Poems Glossary of Poetic Terms Poetry Archive ... Jean Toomer October 31, 2006 Born to racially mixed parents: his father left soon after his birth and his mother died when he was 15, after which he lived with his grandparents Grew up in Washington, D.C. and New Rochelle, New York His light-skinned appearance allowed him to live alternately as a black and a white person Attended five different colleges after high school and never received a degree Wrote experimental poetry that was indebted to imagism, urbanism, and East Asian poetic forms Protested against fallacious racial stereotypes Became a follower of the European mysic George Gurdjieff who advocated a personal transofmation into heightened awareness For 15 years he wrote religious treatises, autobiographies and unpublished poems Quotations: A cow-hoof imprint / pressed against the under-asphalt of / Fifth Avenue, sustains it

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CacheBuster('') Printer Friendly over 3,000,000 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... MELUS artId=146346508;usrSelf=false; Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity. Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity. Karen Jackson Ford. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005. xiv + 205 pages. $35 cloth. Despite being one of the most analyzed texts of one of the most analyzed periods in African American literary history, the critical reception of Jean Toomer's Cane (1923) has in many ways been surprisingly selective in focus. Although from the first reviews onwards Toomer's masterpiece was hailed as a poetic triumph, one which managed to crystallize a black, southern, folk spirit into evocative lyrics and sensuous prose, very little sustained attention has been given to the poetry of Cane or how the genre of poetry functions throughout the collection. Karen Jackson Ford seeks to do just that, and presents a compelling argument that the shifting nature of poetry and choice of poetic form throughout Cane provide its most forceful statement about the fate of African American folk culture in what Toomer called the "modern desert" of urban migration and industrial labor. However, inevitably for a book taking such a strong and consistent argumentative line, there are moments when Ford's thesis seems more vulnerable than others. One instance is the final chapter, which provides an interesting survey of Toomer's post-Cane work, including a persuasive reading of his fine 1936 poem "The Blue Meridian" as a turn away from the lyric and an embrace of the epic as a form better suited to inclusive consciousness and national representation. Yet even given Ford's closing claim that Toomer was somewhat ambivalent about the anachronism of the lyric, or completely committed to the line that "the times demanded a modern form," this does little to address his recourse to the confessional lyric near the end of his life during his embrace of Quaker religious philosophy.

60. Gary Lehmann - Author: Cane, Jean Toomer’s Modern Voyage Of Discovery Lauded as a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, the equal of Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, jean toomer’s montage was http://garylehmann.blogspot.com/2005/12/cane-jean-toomers-modern-voyage-of_22.ht

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=17923046"); Gary Lehmann - Author Author's Publications and Upcoming Appearances Contributors Chris Lehmann Gary Lehmann "Reporting from Fallujah" nominated for Pushcart P... The Weird, Wacky World of Russell Edson ... The Authenic Voice of Wendell Berry Thursday, December 22, 2005 Cane, Jean Toomer’s Modern Voyage of Discovery Every human ever born has struggled to some degree with personal identity issues. Buddha struggled with being born too rich. Almost anyone born poor has asked “Why me?” Sometimes questions of identity can consume an entire lifetime. For Nathan Eugene “Jean” Toomer the issue was racial identity. Toomer was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C. His grandfather, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, was the son of a black slave and the white reconstruction governor of Louisiana. After Toomer’s parents divorced, he moved in with his grandfather in 1909. He had trouble settling down. After enrolling at six different schools, he went to study law at the University of Wisconsin. Pretty soon he gave that up and moved to New York to enroll in City College. When he got tired of that, he returned to Washington to manage the Howard Theater.

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