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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.
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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-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.
Biography