The Roots of Cane - John K. Young

The Roots of Cane

Jean Toomer and American Magazine Modernism

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
334 Seiten
2024
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-965-9 (ISBN)
89,95 inkl. MwSt
Proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer’s Cane. John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923, asking how original readers would have encountered his work.
The Roots of Cane proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer’s Cane. Rather than focusing on the form of the book published by Boni and Liveright, what Toomer would later call a single textual “organism,” John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923. These periodicals ranged from primarily political monthlies to avant-garde arts journals to regional magazines with transnational aspirations.

Young interweaves a periodical-studies approach to modernism with book history and critical race theory, resituating Toomer’s uneasy place within Black modernism by asking how original readers would have encountered his work. The different contexts in which those audiences were engaging with Toomer’s portraits of racialized identity in the Jim Crow United States, yield often surprising results.

John K. Young is professor of English at Marshall University. Previous publications include How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production (Iowa, 2017). He lives outside Columbus, Ohio.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Impressions
Zusatzinfo 12 b&w images, 1 b&w figure
Verlagsort Iowa
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-60938-965-4 / 1609389654
ISBN-13 978-1-60938-965-9 / 9781609389659
Zustand Neuware
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