Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. ... Submitting content to Double Dealer meant that Toomer had to identify himself as a Negro, hence the argumentation that Toomer was confused about his identity. ... To some extent Toomer was theorising race for personal reasons. ... Cane is a fibrous and dense material to dissect just like Toomer's theorizing of race, Toomer's obsession with the south only helps illuminate the title of the novel. .....

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

The short story "Blood-Burning Moon", by Jean Toomer, is the final part in a three-part book called Cane. ... Throughout the story "Blood-Burning Moon," Jean Toomer accentuates racism through love and passion, imagery, and Tom's lynching. ... The contrast was repulsive to him" (Toomer 63). ... Come out that fact'ry door. " (Toomer, 61). ... Blood began to flow" (Toomer, 66). ...

• Word Count: 1343
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Jean Toomer was a very influential author during the early twentieth century (Williams). ... Jean Toomer's father left his wife and son shortly after his birth. Jean's mother, Nina Toomer, had originally named him Nathan Eugene in 1896. ... Eventually he went by the name we know him by today, Jean Toomer. ... After he graduated high school, Jean Toomer began traveling. ...

• Word Count: 2498
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch of artistic and literary revivals, is believed to have begun in 1923 with Jean Toomer's novel Cane. Besides Toomer, some of the important writers of the time can be listed as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. ... Cane (1923), by Jean Toomer, was an experimental novel that combined poetry and prose in documenting the life of American blacks in the rural South and urban North. ...

• Word Count: 925
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Unlike other important black poets of the period "Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to tell apart between his personal experience and the same experience of black America. ...

• Word Count: 534
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and reprinted several critical works and books on the history of his people, and made them available to the public. Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. Locke's books are sti...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and reprinted several critical works and books on the history of his people, and made them available to the public. Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. Locke's books are sti...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

I. A Booming Economy A. The Automobile Drives Prosperity 1. Ford Pioneers Mass Production a. Ford did not originate the ideas of mass production b. Early in the century, only city dwellers could afford cars. c. Ransom Olds had introduced a less expensive car, the Oldsmobile in 1901. d. Ford hired...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance showed the unique culture of African Americans and redefined African American expression. It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. This African American cultural movemen...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Harlem Renaissance was a very influential time period that took place in the United States during the 1920s. It was a period of outstanding literary creativity because of the many talented and overacheiving artists that contributed their hardwork that sometimes went on to earn many awards. Among...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Unlike other notable black poets of the period--Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Unlike other notable black poets of the period, such as Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, And Countee Cullen, Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. ...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Unlike other notable black poets of the period--Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

INTRODUCTION In 1918 by the end of World War I, Harlem in New York City had become the largest black community in the United States. An African American movement was on its way. Many blacks from the south migrated to the north to find better opportunities. Music with different beats was being pl...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Included in the papers are letters from Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Ralph Ellison, Hugh Dalziel Duncan, Katherine Anne Porter, Theodore Roethke, Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, Howard Nemerov, and Marianne Moore. ...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Claude McKay's volume of poetry, Harlem Shadow (1922), Jean Toomer's experimental novel combination of poetry and prose, Cane (1923), and Jessie Fauset's novel about a middleclass black woman, There Is Confusion (1924) were among the first books written by Blacks to be published. ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if the...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School