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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Alabama Pr
Publication date
May 29, 2005
Pages
205
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780817314569
ISBN-10
0817314563
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
Original list price
$79.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane. When first published in 1923, this pivotal work of modernism was widely halled as inaugurating a truly artistic African American literary tradition. Yet Toomer's experiments in literary form are consistently read in terms of political radicalism - protest and uplift - rather than literary radicalism. Ford contextualizes Toomer's poetry, letters, and essays in the literary culture of his period and, through close readings of the poems, shows how they negotlate formal experimentation (imagism, fragmentation, dialect) and traditional African American forms (slave songs, field hollers, call-and-response sermons, lyric poetry). At the heart of Toomer's work is the paradox that poetry is both the saving grace of African American culture and that poetry cannot survive modernity. This contradiction, Ford argues, structures Cane, wherein traditional lyric poetry first flourishes, then falters, then falls silent. contradictory poet who brings his vexed experience and ideas of racial identity to both conventional lyric and experimental forms. Although Toomer has been labelled a political radical, Ford argues that politics is peripheral in his experimental, stream-of-consciousness work. Rather Toomer exhibits a literary radicalism as he struggles to articulate his perplexed understanding of race and art in 20th-century America.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Univ of Alabama Pr (May 29, 2005)
9780817314569 | details & prices | 205 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $79.95
About: In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane.
About: In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Univ of Alabama Pr (September 15, 2015)
9780817358464 | details & prices | 205 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.74 lbs | List price $29.95
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