Race, manhood, and modernism in America : the short story cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer /

Race, manhood, and modernism in America : the short story cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer / Mark Whalan.

"Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America offers the first extended comparison between American writers Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) and Jean Toomer (1894-1967), examining their engagement with the ideas of Young American writers and critics such as Van Wyck Brooks, Paul Rosenfeld, and Waldo Fr...

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Main Author: Whalan, Mark, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2007]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Anderson, Sherwood, > 1876-1941. > Winesburg, Ohio.
Toomer, Jean, > 1894-1967. > Cane.
Race in literature.
Race relations in literature.
African Americans > Southern States > History.
Sex role in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Short stories, American > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Narrative, gender, and history in Winesburg, Ohio
  • Sherwood Anderson and primitivism
  • Double dealing in the South : Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, and the ethnography of region
  • "Things are so immediate in Georgia" : articulating the South in Cane
  • Cane, body technologies, and genealogy
  • Cane, audience, and form.

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