jean toomer
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The History of Literature #94 – Smoke, Dusk, and Fire – The Jean Toomer Story
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was born into a prominent black family in Washington, D.C., but it wasn’t until he returned to the land of agrarian Georgia that he was inspired to write his masterpiece Cane (1923), a towering achievement that went on to influence the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation. While Toomer’s Continue reading
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History of Literature #88 – The Harlem Renaissance
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:41 — 35.8MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS | More The Harlem Renaissance, the great flowering of African American arts and culture in the early twentieth century, is hard to define and easy to admire. Coupled with the Great Migration, in which Continue reading
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