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Article: Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance.
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- African American Review
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- March 22, 2002
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Genevieve Fabre and Michael Feith, eds. Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001. 235 pp. $22.0O.
This collection of essays on Jean Toomer is very much a French affair. Its two editors are French and teach at French universities, and over half the contributors of the thirteen essays are either French or European. The result of a conference held on the Harlem Renaissance in Paris in January, 1998, this book offers many fresh insights, and the prose is almost always lucid, an amusing irony in the latter instance since it has been the importation of French theory that has made so much American criticism opaque. Another virtue is that ...