Blue Meridian (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)

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Jean Toomer’s “Blue Meridian” is a poem of prophetic implications, arguing that in America there is the possibility for a new world vision wherein all barriers between people will be overcome. Toomer’s visionary, polemical poem focuses on those dimensions of conventional Western, particularly American, society that have sought to exclude others with whom one does not desire to identify and shows the possibilities inherent in the American people for overcoming these barriers and becoming one with the “Universal Self,” the spirit behind all...

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