Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance

GENEVIÈVE FABRE is a professor at the University Denis Diderot in Paris, where she is director of the Center of African American Research. She has published widely on African American and Hispanic literature, including her book Drumbeats, Masks, and Metaphors.MICHEL FEITH is associate professor at the University of Nantes, France, and has published on Asian, Hispanic, and African American literatures.

• Tight-lipped "Oracle": around and beyond Cane / Geneviève Fabre and Michel FeithJean Toomer's Cane: modernism and race in interwar America / Werner SollorsIdentity in motion: placing Cane / George HutchinsonThe poetics of passing in Jean Toomer's Cane / Charles-Yves Grandjeat"The waters of my heart": myth and belonging in Jean Toomer's Cane / Françoise ClaryFeeding the soul with words: preaching and dreaming in Cane / Cécile Coquet"Karintha": a textual analysis / Monica MichlinDramatic and musical structures in "Harvest song" and "Kabnis": Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Geneviève FabreBlack modernism? the early poetry of Jean Toomer and Claude McKay / Wolfgang KarrerRace and the visual arts in the works of Jean Toomer and Georgia O'Keeffe / Martha Jane NadellJean Toomer and Horace Liveright; or, a new Negro gets "into the swing of it" / Michael SotoBuilding the new race: Jean Toomer's eugenic aesthetic / Diana I. WilliamsThe reception of Cane in France / Michel Fabre