To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance

By Jon Woodson

Book Overview

Jean Toomer's adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of works from the Harlem Renaissance might believe. In To Make a New Race... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578061318
• ISBN13: 9781578061310
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

This book marks new critical space

Previous critics have written about Toomer's biography, its interconnections with his art and the art of his contemporaries. However, no other critic to date have given so much prominence and meaningful prominence to the philosophical influence Gurdjieff had upon such black writers as Larsen, Schuyler, Thurman and Hurston. His interpretation is thoroughly grounded in firm intellectual work.

A must have

To Make a New Race is a must have book for all literary scholars and those interested in African American history. I received it this morning and haven't put it down since. Woodson does a fine job of decoding the influnce of Gurdijeff and Toomer on the writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance