Karen Jackson Ford, "Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity"
English | ISBN: 0817358463 | 2015 | 220 pages | PDF | 14 MB
A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.
In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer’s main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane. When first published in 1923, this pivotal work of modernism was widely hailed as inaugurating a truly artistic African American literary tradition. Yet Toomer’s experiments in literary form are consistently read in terms of political radicalism-protest and uplift-rather than literary radicalism.
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