Jean Toomer`s Cane as a Swan Song

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Journal of American Studies Turkey
Issue:11
Jean Toomer`s Cane as a Swan Song

Jean Toomer`s Cane as a Swan Song

Authors : Heiner BUS

Pages : 21-29

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Publication Date : 2000-04-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In his autobiographical writings and letters Toomer characterized Cane as “a swan song ... the song of an end.“1 And recalling his visit to Georgia in 1921 he observed: “With Negroes also the trend was towards the small town and then towards the city- and industry and commerce and machines. The folk-spirit was walking in to die on the modern desert“ 142 . In a letter Toomer was even more prophetic: Don’t let us fool ourselves, brother: the Negro of the folk-song has all but passed away: the Negro of the emotional church is fading. A hundred years from now these Negroes, if they exist at all will live in art ... Likewise the Indian America needs these elements. They are passing. Let us grab and hold them while there is still time 151 .
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