Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticism

“This book is what scholars of American and African American literature have needed for quite some time. Robert B. Jones’s selection of materials is excellent, and his expert ordering reveals that breadth and evolution of Jean Toomer’s thought over several decades. This collection will considerably enlarge our understanding of the author whose reputation remains tied, in large part, to Cane.”—Rudolph P. Byrd, Emory University

“Like the intertextual relations between ‘black-authored’ and ‘wh...