{"id":35049,"date":"2014-11-09T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35049"},"modified":"2014-11-09T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T18:00:08","slug":"jean-toomer-race-repression-and-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35049","title":{"rendered":"Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Illinois Press<\/a>
\nJuly 2014
\n336 pages
\n6.125 x 9.25 in.
\n10 black & white photographs, 1 chart
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03844-0<\/p>\n

Barbara Foley<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English
\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark<\/em><\/p>\n

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Political and personal repression and its effect on the work of a Harlem Renaissance luminary<\/em><\/p>\n

The 1923 publication of Cane<\/em><\/a> established Jean Toomer<\/a> as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance<\/a>. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching eyewitness portraits of Jim Crow<\/a> violence, few seem to recognize how much Toomer’s interest in class struggle, catalyzed by the Russian Revolution<\/a> and the post\u2013World War One<\/a> radical upsurge, situate his masterwork in its immediate historical context.<\/p>\n

In Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution<\/em>, Barbara Foley explores Toomer’s political and intellectual connections with socialism, the New Negro movement<\/a>, and the project of Young America. Examining his rarely scrutinized early creative and journalistic writings, as well as unpublished versions of his autobiography, she recreates the complex and contradictory consciousness that produced Cane<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Foley’s discussion of political repression runs parallel with a portrait of repression on a personal level. Examining family secrets heretofore unexplored in Toomer scholarship, she traces their sporadic surfacing in Cane<\/em>. Toomer’s text, she argues, exhibits a political unconscious that is at once public and private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution University of Illinois Press July 2014 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 10 black & white photographs, 1 chart Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03844-0 Barbara Foley, Professor of English Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Political and personal repression and its effect on the work of a Harlem Renaissance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,1196,8,17,20],"tags":[4908,1996,1111],"class_list":["post-35049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-barbara-foley","tag-jean-toomer","tag-university-of-illinois-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}