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  1. To make a new race
    Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
    Author: Woodson, Jon
    Published: ©1999
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585190542; 9780585190549; 157806130X; 1578061318; 9781578061303; 9781578061310
    Subjects: Littérature américaine / Auteurs noirs américains / Histoire et critique; Littérature américaine / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Noirs américains / Vie intellectuelle; Harlem Renaissance; Race dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; African Americans / Intellectual life; American literature; American literature / African American authors; Harlem Renaissance; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Intellectual life; Race; Race in literature; Schwarze. USA; American literature; American literature; African Americans; Harlem Renaissance; Race in literature; Schwarze; Harlem renaissance; Schriftsteller
    Other subjects: Toomer, Jean / 1894-1967; Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch / 1872-1949; Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitc̆ / 1872-1949; Toomer, Jean / 1894-1967 / Critique et interprétation; Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitc̆ / 1872-1949 / Et la race; Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitc̆ / 1872-1949 / Influence; Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch / 1872-1949; Toomer, Jean / 1894-1967; Toomer, Jean (1894-1967); Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch (1872-1949); Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch (1872-1949); Gurdjieff, Georges I. (1872-1949); Toomer, Jean (1894-1967)
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    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index

    Jean Toomer: Beside You Will Stand a Strange Man -- - Wallace Thurman: Beyond Race and Color -- - Rudolph Fisher: Minds of Another Order -- - Nella Larsen: The Anatomy of "Sleep" -- - George Schuyler: New Races and New Worlds -- - Zora Neale Hurston: The Self and the Nation

  2. To make a new race
    Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
    Author: Woodson, Jon
    Published: c1999
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    Jean Toomer's adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of works from the Harlem Renaissance might believe. In To Make a New Race Jon Woodson explores the intense influence of... more

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    Jean Toomer's adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of works from the Harlem Renaissance might believe. In To Make a New Race Jon Woodson explores the intense influence of Greek-born mystic G. I. Gurdjieff on the thinking of Toomer and his coterie--Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larson, George Schuyler, Wallace Thurman--and, through them, the mystic's influence on many of the notables in African American literature. Gurdjieff, born of poor Greco-Armenian parents on the Russo-Turkish frontier, espoused the theory that man i

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 157806130X; 1578061318; 9781604737097; 9781578061310
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; African Americans; Harlem Renaissance; Race in literature
    Other subjects: Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch (1872-1949); Toomer, Jean (1894-1967); Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch (1872-1949)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (x, 202 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190) and index

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    Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Jean Toomer: Beside You Will Stand a Strange Man; 2 Wallace Thurman: Beyond Race and Color; 3 Rudolph Fisher: Minds of Another Order; 4 Nella Larsen: The Anatomy of ""Sleep""; 5 George Schuyler: New Races and New Worlds; 6 Zora Neale Hurston: The Self and the Nation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z