{"product_id":"jean-toomer-and-the-terrors-of-american-history-hardcover","title":"Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Scruggs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLee Vandemarr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Toomer's \u003ci\u003eCane\u003c\/i\u003e was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large. Toomer's own life reflected that internal conflict, and he has been an ambiguous figure in literary history, an author who wrote a text that had a tremendous impact on African American authors but who eventually tried to distance himself from \u003ci\u003eCane\u003c\/i\u003e and from his identification as a black writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eJean Toomer and the Terrors of American History\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr examine original sources--Toomer's rediscovered early writings on politics and race, his extensive correspondence with Waldo Frank, and unpublished portions of his autobiographies--to show how the cultural wars of the 1920s influenced the shaping of Toomer's book and his subsequent efforts to escape the racial definitions of American society. That those definitions remain crucial for American society even today is one reason Toomer's work continues to fascinate and to influence contemporary writers and readers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Scruggs is Professor of English at the University of Arizona. Lee VanDemarr is a freelance writer and editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 9.56 x 6.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53246480023859,"sku":"9780812234510","price":136.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/tsZZDfJMj29780812234510.webp?v=1776286662","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/jean-toomer-and-the-terrors-of-american-history-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}