Toomer, Jean - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHY

Kerman, Cynthia Earl and Richard Eldridge. The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987, 411 p.

Detailed biography emphasizing Toomer's quest for spiritual fulfillment.

CRITICISM

Bell, Bernard W. “Jean Toomer's Cane.” Black World 23, No. 11 (September 1974): 4-19, 92-7.

Commentary on the pastoral and religious elements in Cane.

Benson, Brian Joseph and Mabel Mayle Dillard. Jean Toomer. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980, 150 p.

Biographical and critical study of Toomer.

Brannan, Tim. “Up from the Dusk: Interpretations of Jean Toomer's ‘Blood Burning Moon.’” Pembroke Magazine No. 8 (1977): 167-72.

Investigates various interpretations of “Blood Burning Moon.”

Christ, Jack M. “Jean Toomer's ‘Bona and Paul’: The Innocence and Artifice...

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