Blood-Burning Moon (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Toomer
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Plot: Symbolist
- Time of Work: The early 1920's
- Setting: Rural Georgia
- Principal Characters: Louisa, Tom Burwell, Bob Stone
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: African Americans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Interracial relationships, Women’s issues, Lynching
- Locales: Georgia
The Story
The last of six prose pieces in the first part of the cycle of poems and stories entitled Cane (1923), about young black women, “Blood-Burning Moon” is the tragic story of Louisa and her two lovers, a white and a black; its action occurs in a small factory town and the surrounding sugarcane fields in rural Georgia early in the 1920's.
Louisa works in the kitchens of the Stones, a leading white family of the community, and young Bob Stone loves her; as the narrator says, “By the measure of that warm glow which came into her mind at the thought of...
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