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Article: A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writings.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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Reviewed by Rudolph P. Byrd Emory University
Frederick L. Rusch's A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writings significantly enlarges our understanding of a major figure in American letters. The portrait of Jean Toomer which emerges from the seven sections of Rusch's expertly edited reader is of an artist engaged in an ambitious and lifelong intellectual project which found expression in a correspondence with many of the leading intellectuals of his generation, as well as in such genres as the aphorism, the essay, fiction, and autobiography.
The materials of section 1 of A Jean Toomer Reader provide insight into Toomer's mood and outlook shortly before ...