Examining both Cane and the body of writings Toomer produced after it, Byrd finds a distinct thematic unity in the Toomer canon--a consistent, optimistic faith in human possibility and wholeness.
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Examining both Cane and the body of writings Toomer produced after it, Byrd finds a distinct thematic unity in the Toomer canon--a consistent, optimistic faith in human possibility and wholeness.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in very good dust jacket. Light bump to lower front board; light shelf wear to jacket edges, bookseller's sticker on back cover; internally fine and unread. Grey cloth over boards. 8vo (6.25 x 9.25 inches). 212 p. Audience: General/trade. Jean Toomer (1894 1967) earned his place in American literary history with "Cane (1923), " a brilliant modernist collage of fiction, poetry, and drama about black life in rural Georgia and the urban North. Although Toomer continued to write prodigiously, his work went largely unpublished as he turned away from an exploration of his African American roots he had employed so powerfully in "Cane. " Rudolph P. Byrd examines the central reason behind Toomer s literary decline: his enthusiasm for the theories of George Gurdjieff, a contemporary Russian psychologist, philosopher, and mystic. As Toomer s work degenerated into propaganda for Gurdjieff s theories on human development and spiritual reforms, publishers turned away. Yet, Byrd makes clear that the works Toomer wrote after 1923 do not represent the total break from his earlier concerns that critics have generally assumed. Examining both Cane and the body of writings Toomer produced after it, Byrd finds a distinct thematic unity in the Toomer canon― a consistent, optimistic faith in human possibility and wholeness. (Excerpted from the dust jacket flap blurb)
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Clean & Unmarked in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper. Otherwise clean and straight with clean text and a strong binding. Dust jacket has some rubbing at extremities with a scuff and a scratch on rear, nearly invisible. 212 pp.
