By (author) Jean Toomer , Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd , Edited by Jr. Henry Louis Gates
Format Paperback | 560 pages
Dimensions 132 x 213 x 30mm | 545g
Publication date 06 Jan 2011
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Language English
Edition Revised
Edition Statement Second Edition
ISBN10 0393931684
ISBN13 9780393931686
页面参数仅供参考,具体以实物为准
内容简介
Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American studies. The Second Edition begins with the editors' introduction, a major work of scholarship that places Toomer within the context of American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. The introduction provides groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer and examines his complex, contradictory racial position as well as his own pioneering views on race. Illustrative materials include government documents containing contradictory information on Toomer's race, several photographs of Toomer, and a map of Sparta, Georgia-the inspiration for the first and third parts of Cane. The edition reprints the 1923 foreword to Cane by Toomer's friend Waldo Frank, which helped introduce Toomer to a small but influential readership. Revised and expanded explanatory annotations are also included.
"Backgrounds and Sources" collects a wealth of autobiographical writing that illuminates important phases in Jean Toomer's intellectual life, including a central chapter from The Wayward and the Seeking and Toomer's essay on teaching the philosophy of Russian psychologist and mystic Georges I. Gurdjieff, "Why I Entered the Gurdjieff Work." The volume also reprints thirty of Toomer's letters from 1919-30, the height of his literary career, to correspondents including Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Claude McKay, Horace Liveright, Georgia O'Keeffe, and James Weldon Johnson.
An unusually rich "Criticism" section demonstrates deep and abiding interest in Cane. Five contemporary reviews-including those by Robert Littell and W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke-suggest its initial reception. From the wealth of scholarly commentary on Cane, the editors have chosen twenty-one major interpretations spanning eight decades including those by Langston Hughes, Robert Bone, Darwin T. Turner, Charles T. Davis, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, Barbara Foley, Mark Whalan, and Nellie Y. McKay.
A Chronology, new to the Second Edition, and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.
简·图默(Jean Toomer)的《拐杖》最初出版于1923年,至今仍是一部创新的文学作品,包括戏剧,派对诗歌,小说。经修订的诺顿批判版以第一版(1988)为基础,该版由已故的非裔美国人研究领域的先驱达尔文·特纳(Darwin T. Turner)编辑。第二版从编辑的介绍开始,这是一项主要的学术研究,使Toomer处于美国现代主义和哈林文艺复兴时期。引言提供了有关图默尔的开创性传记信息,并考察了他复杂,矛盾的种族立场以及他对种族的开创性见解。说明性材料包括政府文件,其中包含有关图默尔种族的矛盾信息,几张图默尔的照片以及斯巴达地图,乔治亚州-甘蔗第一部分和第三部分的灵感来源。该版本重印了1923年Toomer的朋友Waldo Frank给Cane的前言,这有助于向少量但有影响力的读者介绍Toomer。修订和扩展的解释性注释也包括在内。
一个异常丰富的“批评”部分展示了对甘蔗的浓厚而持久的兴趣。五项当代评论-包括Robert Littell和WEB Du Bois和Alain Locke的评论-首次接受了此评论。从关于甘蔗的大量学术评论中,编辑们选择了八十年来的二十一种主要解释,包括兰斯顿·休斯,罗伯特·波恩,达尔文·特纳,查尔斯·戴维斯,爱丽丝·沃克,盖尔·琼斯,芭芭拉·弗利,马克Whalan和Nellie Y. McKay。
还包括第二版的年表和更新的精选书目。
作者简介
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was born in Washington, D.C., the son of educated blacks of Creole stock. Literature was his first love and he regularly contributed avant garde poetry and short stories to such magazines as Dial, Broom, Secession, Double Dealer, and Little Review. After a literary apprenticeship in New York, Toomer taught school in rural Georgia. His experiences there led to the writing of Cane. Rudolph P. Byrd (Ph.D. Yale University) is the Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Department of African American Studies and the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University. He is the author and editor of ten books, including Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff; Essentials by Jean Toomer with Charles Johnson; Charles Johnson's Novels: Writing the American Palimpsest; The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson; and with Alice Walker The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker. Among Professor Byrd's awards and fellowships are an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Harvard University; Visiting Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center; and the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory University. He is a founding officer of the Alice Walker Literary Society. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.
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