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Presented by: Rene, Racquel, Lukaas, and Yesenia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer

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Arbour, Robert. “Figuring and Reconfiguring the Folk: Women and Metaphor in Part 1 of Jean Toomers

Cane.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 55, no. 3, 2013, pp. 307–327. Project MUSE, doi:10.7560/tsll55302.

Jones, Robert. “Jean Toomer as Poet: A Phenomenology of the Spirit.” Black American Literature Forum,vol. 21, no. 3, 1987, p. 253. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/2904030.

Toomer, Jean. “Blood Burning-Moon” Cane. New York: Liveright,1975. pp. 28-37. Print

Toomer, Jean. “Carma” Cane. New York: Liveright, 1975. Pp. 10-11. Print.

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Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. Arrow Books, 2011.

Jean Toomer/Carma/A Moveable Feast

Sources

A Moveable Feast-Chapter 14

Hemingway-young eager writer, ready to learn

Comes off misogynistic once again

"young old maid compared to those of articulate and knowing physician who was a good and simple writer"(pg 101)

Hemingway and Evan's conversations

"How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply"(pg. 105)

-Russian Literature

Emphasizes Hemingway's life and art

Foreshadowing Hemingway's dark future...

-suicide, alcoholism

"It took him longer to reconcile himself...I did not know he was so badly wounded"

A Moveable Feast- Chapter 13

Hemingway has several conversations with the characters.

The chapter starts off with Hemingway having a conversation with Walsh.

-consists of two foreign women who are associated with Walsh. (clash of 2 different worlds)

Implies that Walsh has fame, or success.

Compared with Walsh, Hemingway is basically nothing.

Hemingway had become an authentic symbol of life in Paris

Hemingway has a sense of happiness that motivates him to entertain their curiosities of Paris

Walsh wishes to impress Hemingway.

- attempts to do everything lavishly

Their conversations started off as normal conversations but escalated.

"Marked for life" or being "marked for death"

Hemingway confronts Walsh by saying "you con man, making a living out of your death"( pg. 99).

talked about Hemingway's writing, which he hated

Walsh died not much long after, promising Joyce Hemingway a reward.

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Stein and Hemingway's Friendship:

"Hemingway, you have the run of the place. Don't you know that? I mean it truly"(pg 91).

Stein is not as good of a friend in Hemingway's eyes

Women and men could never be close friends according to Hemingway.

"There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse"(pg 91).

Hemingway comes off as misogynistic

"Stein looked like a Roman Emperor and that's fine if you like your women that way"

Stein and Hemingway fallout, everyone came to terms with the turn of events

"When you cannot make friends anymore in your head is the worst"(pg 93).

A Moveable Feast-

Chapter 12

Experiencing Segregation in the 1960s

Segregation/African Heritage in Carma

Stories share a dark, melancholy tone, using settings involving American segregation.

"Carma" set in the South, during 1920s

Deal with African-American communities of region, told in third person.

Shares name with Hindu and Buddhist concept of karma

Robert Arbour description of religious element: "Carma mediates between the souls of folk and a metaphorical African heritage"(xx).

Narrator expresses her connection with mediation.

Author transports us to another space of African heritage as Carma disappears

Smooth transitions. Uses poetic verse "come along"

Arbour describes the scene of Carma running into the fields

Objective consciousness expressed through his African heritage connection

Reference to African religion

"Blood Burning-Moon" has similarities regarding the use of African religion, and African heritage

Carma-

Literacy/Analysis

Jean Toomer-well known for poetry

Robert Jones explains how "poetry provided an artful medium for imaging his ideas on the phenomenology of "Objective Consciousness'"".

Through his writing describes southern life in the early 1900s.

Poetic verse-cane field and stalks moving in the wind(repeated 3 times)

Field represents timeless space

similar poetic verse in "Blood-Burning Moon"

Carma(Characters)

Bane-Hard worker, afraid, Anger issues

Carma(Plot)

Carma-Woman that dresses like a man, drives a wagon, and has the strength of a man. Melodramatic.

-Short story in Cane(1923)

-Melodramatic

-Strong Woman(Carma), and her interaction with her husband that put him in prison

-Interaction between Carma and husband, who travels a lot

-Carma has lovers, and when confronted, runs away with a gun in hand

-Gun goes off, Bane thinking she is dead

-Bane finds Carma's body, brings her back, and realizes she is still alive

-Bane murders a man he believed was assisting Carma in the scheme, who is placed in prison

Jean Toomer Cont.

Jean Toomer

Graduated from the highly regarded all-black Dunbar High School

Was a School principle

Trip to South encouraged him to write about African-American experience, resulting in his most famous work, Cane.

Contributed in Modernism, along with Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot.

Later embraced Quaker religion, last decade as a recluse

Stopped writing literary works in 1950, died in 1967.

Biography

-Born in Washington as Nathan Pinchback Toomer

-Grandson of the first governor of African-American descent in the United States

-Cane(1923) praised by critics for literary experimentation, and African-American culture

-Attended both all-white and all-black segregated schools

-refused to be identified a certain race. Identified as an American

-Father left when he was one year old

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