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 Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs, explores a conspicuously overlooked topic: Hemingwayâs wide-ranging influence on writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present day. An observable whoâs who of black writersâRalph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Chester Himes, Alex la Guma, Derek Walcott, Gayl Jones, and moreâcite Hemingway as a vital influence. This inspiration extends from style, Hemingwayâs minimalist art, to themes of isolation and loneliness, the dilemma of the expatriate, and the terrifying experience of living in a time of war. The relationship, nevertheless, was not unilateral, as in the case of Jean Toomerâs 1923 hybrid, short-story cycle Cane, which influenced Hemingwayâs collage-like 1925 In Our Time.           Just as important as Hemingwayâs influence, indeed, is the complex intertextuality, the multilateral conversation, between Hemingway and key black writers. The diverse praises by black writers for Hemingway in fact signify that the white authorâs prose rises out of the same intensely American concerns that their own writings are formed on: the integrity of the human subject faced with social alienation, psychological violence, and psychic disillusionment. An understanding of this literary kinship ultimately initiates not only an appreciation of Hemingwayâs stimulus but also a perception of an insistent black presence at the core of Hemingwayâs writing.
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9780814211779 | Ohio State Univ Pr, April 30, 2012, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: Â Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs, explores a conspicuously overlooked topic: Hemingwayâs wide-ranging influence on writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present day.
9780814292785 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, March 28, 2012), cover price $14.95
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9780814252383 | Ohio State Univ Pr, May 29, 2015, cover price $24.95
Product Description: Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812234510 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer.
Product Description: In this groundbreaking book Charles Scruggs identifies the black urban experience as a driving force behind the twentieth-century Afro-American novel, resulting in a rich fictional tradition that runs from Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods through Toni Morrison's Beloved...read more
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9780801845024 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $48.50 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking book Charles Scruggs identifies the black urban experience as a driving force behind the twentieth-century Afro-American novel, resulting in a rich fictional tradition that runs from Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods through Toni Morrison's Beloved.
Paperback:
9780801851278 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking book Charles Scruggs identifies the black urban experience as a driving force behind the twentieth-century Afro-American novel, resulting in a rich fictional tradition that runs from Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods through Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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9780801830006 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Examines the popularity of H.
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