Jean Toomer (1894 - 1967)


A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Jean Toomer, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites


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Literary criticism

Doreski, C.K. To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance, African American Review, Summer, 2001

Dow, William. "Always your heart": the "great design" of Toomer's Cane - Jean Toomer - Critical Essay, MELUS, Winter, 2002

Fike, Matthew A. Jean Toomer and Okot p'Bitek in Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" - Critical Essay, MELUS, Fall-Winter, 2000

Foley, Barbara. "In the land of cotton": economics and violence in Jean Toomer's 'Cane.' African American Review, Summer, 1998

Kodat, Catherine Gunther. To "Flash White Light from Ebony": The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer's Cane - Critical Essay, Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 2000

Pardlo, Gregory A. The Trick of Transcending Race Black Issues Book Review, Jan, 2001

Reuben, Paul. Primary and secondary bibliography for Jean Toomer and a short biography, from Dr. Reuben's bibliography web site

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Introduction, overview

An introduction to Jean Toomer plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)

A brief introduction to Jean Toomer from the Academy of American Poets


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