To make a new race : Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance

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Title:

To make a new race : Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance

Author:

Woodson, Jon.

Personal Author:

Woodson, Jon.

Publication Information:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1999]

Physical Description:

x, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Jean Toomer: beside you will stand a strange man -- Wallace Thurman: beyond race and color -- Rudolf 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.

Reading Level:

1350 Lexile.

Personal Subject:

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967-Criticism and interpretation.

Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949.

Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949-Influence.

Subject Term:

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

African Americans -- Intellectual life.

African Americans in literature.

Harlem Renaissance.