The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924

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The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 is written by Jean Toomer and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1572334703 (ISBN 10) and 9781572334700 (ISBN 13).

"Mark Whalen's compilation offers a vital document for understanding the contexts, intellectual debates, and tensions undergirding Toomer's work, including his simultaneous feelings of attraction to and estrangement from rural southern life, the influence of technology on race and urban existence in America and the contradictory pulls of folk culture and modernist experimentation. The collection also charts the motives underlying Toomer's abandonment of the style that distinguished Cane, and his growing fascination with the teachings of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in 1924."--BOOK JACKET.