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After Cane, Toomer took a radically different approach to writing and perhaps to his views about his own identity as an African American. This is largely due to his interest in the teachings of the Russian mystic Georges Gurdjieff. In response to solicitations for his works to be included in anthologies of African-American writing, he would claim that he was not Black but simply American. However, this need to transcend racial identity is implied in Cane, particularly in the character of Paul. A long poem called Blue Meridian, which he published in 1932, treats this...
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