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Article: Jean Toomer's eternal South.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- The Southern Literary Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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"how curiously, painfully creative is the South!"--letter to Waldo Frank, ca. Nov. 1922
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"This book is the South," declared Waldo Frank in the 1923 foreword to his friend Jean Toomer's Cane (Frank 138). Toomer's fresh, new treatment of southern folk, he averred, made Cane "a harbinger of the South's literary maturity" (139). Yet neither man was southern. Frank was a white northeasterner who had visited the South on three occasions then wrote a bad novel, Holiday, ineptly interpreting southern culture and lynching. For his part, Jean Toomer visited the Deep South only twice, totaling less than three months. Nonetheless his own anonymous review of Cane, ...
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