Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane

ISBN-13: 9780820424927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 156 str.

Opis

Cane one of the major works of the Harlem Renaissance and Jean Toomer s imagist masterpiece, is now a part of the canon in Afro-American literature. Teaching Jean Toomer s 1923 Cane is a unique literary tool that explores the brilliance and far-sighted vision of Toomer, allowing Cane to be taught holistically as a discovery process, using the blues motif and the poetic essay. This book s text and figures ground a discussion of Cane s enigmatic and figurative language, connecting the Harlem Renaissance to the Negritude Movement and to later Afro-centric literary movements. This book also reviews P.B.S. Pinchback s legacy as a non-Negro, able to pass easily in white society, the influence of Ouspensky, H. L Mencken s critical work, The Paris Brotherhood, and -Saccaharum officinarum-G.- Like the lunar arcs dividing Cane, the book works as an instructional map. The pictures from the first complete production also tell a remarkable story."

O autorze

The Author: Poet and Professor of Language, Literature, and Culture at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, Chezia Thompson Cager received a Doctorate of Arts Degree in English from Carnegie-Mellon University after graduating with a B.A. in English and an M.A. in education from Washington University. Her published research articles include work on Earl Lovelace, Ntozake Shange, and Wole Soyinka, all of which she has directed on stage.