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Early Twentieth-Century Fiction e20fic19.blogs.rutgers.edu Prof. Andrew Goldstone (andrew.goldstone@rutgers.edu) Office hours: Murray 019, Thursdays 11:30–1:30 or by appointment November 4, 2019. Toomer (1).

review: property is theft ▶ the falcon as hollow center ▶ the falsified chain of transmission ▶ the (ludicrous) fake ▶ what is worth? ▶ what is literary worth, for the genre? ▶ the coin of experience ▶ “it is not a fragrant world” ▶ redemption? no, thanks

parallel histories 1892 Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1893 James, “The Middle Years” 1916 Joyce, Portrait 1921 Woolf, Monday or Tuesday 1923 Sayers, Whose Body? 1929 Woolf, A Room of One’s Own 1929–30 Hammett, Maltese Falcon 1930 Faulkner, As I Lay Dying 1944 Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder”

parallel histories 1892 Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1893 James, “The Middle Years” 1903 Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk 1916 Joyce, Portrait 1921 Woolf, Monday or Tuesday 1923 Toomer, Cane 1923 Sayers, Whose Body? 1925 Locke, ed., The New Negro 1926 Hughes, The Weary Blues 1929 Woolf, A Room of One’s Own 1929–30 Hammett, Maltese Falcon 1930 Faulkner, As I Lay Dying 1937 Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 1944 Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder”

Left: NYT Book Review , June 10, 1923: 28. ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Right: Ibid., September 16, 1923: 24. ProQuest.

categories My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine…. I do not expect to be told what I should consider myself to be…. As a B and L author, I make the distinction between my fundamental position and the position which your publicity department may wish to establish for me in order that Cane reach as large a public as possible. In this connection I have told you…to make use of whatever racial factors you wish. Feature Negro if you wish, but do not expect me to feature it in advertisements for you. For myself, I have sufficiently featured Negro in Cane . Whatever statements I give will inevitably come from a synthetic human and art point of view; not from a racial one…. All of this may seem over-subtle and over-refined to you, but I assure you that it isn’t. Toomer to Horace Liveright, September 5, 1923. Beinecke library; Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919–1924 , ed. Mark Whalan (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006), 171–72.

Cane (New York: Liveright, 1923): dust jacket. Beinecke Library.

The gifted Negro has been too often thwarted from becoming a poet because his world was forever forcing him to recollect that he was a Negro. The artist must lose such lesser identities in the great well of life. Waldo Frank, foreword to Cane (New York: Liveright, 1923), viii. HathiTrust.

The gifted Negro has been too often thwarted from becoming a poet because his world was forever forcing him to recollect that he was a Negro. The artist must lose such lesser identities in the great well of life. Waldo Frank, foreword to Cane (New York: Liveright, 1923), viii. HathiTrust.

SONG OF THE SON 261 T H E C R I S I S SONG OF THE SON A R E C O R D O F T H E D A R K E R R A C E S JEAN T O O M E R P U B L I S H E D M O N T H L Y A N D C O P Y R I G H T E D B Y T H E N A T I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N F O R T H E A D V A N C E M E N T OF C O L O R E D P E O P L E , A T 70 F I F T H A V E N U E , N E W Y O R K C I T Y . CON- D U C T E D B Y W . E . B U R G H A R D T D U B O I S ; JESSI E R E D M O N F A U S E T , L I T E R A R Y E D I T O R ; A U G U S T U S G R A N V I L L E D I L L , B U S I N E S S M A N A G E R . Vol. 2 3 - N o . 6 APRIL, 1922 Whole No. 138 POUR, O pour, that parting soul in song, O pour it in the saw-dust glow of night, Page C O V E R Into the velvet pine-smoke air tonight, "Spring." Drawing by Yolande D u Bois. And let the valley carry it along, O P I N I O N And let the valley carry it along. T h e W o r l d and U s ; T h e Dyer Bill in the Senate; T h e Sterling-Towner Bill; Maria Baldwin; T h e Case of Samuel Moore; The Spanish Fandango; O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree Show Us, Missouri; Again Africa; The Demagog; Help 2 4 7 So scant of grass, so profligate of pines, T H E N E G R O B A N K . Illustrated 2 5 3 Now just before an epoch's sun declines L E X T A L I O N I S . A Story. Robert W . Bagnall 2 5 4 Thy son, in time, I have returned to thee, T H E P O R T U G U E S E N E G R O . Nicolas Santos-Pinto 2 5 9 Thy son, I have in time returned to thee. B R A W L E Y ' S " S O C I A L H I S T O R Y O F T H E A M E R I C A N N E G R O " 2 6 0 S O N G O F T H E S O N . A Poem. Jean T o o m e r 2 6 1 In time, for though the sun is setting on T H E N A T I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N F O R T H E A D V A N C E M E N T O F C O L O R E D P E O P L E 2 6 2 A song-lit race of slaves, it has not set; PRIDE. A Poem. Mortimer G. Mitchell 2 6 5 Though late, O soil it is not too late yet T H E H O R I Z O N . Illustrated 2 6 6 To catch thy plaintive soul, leaving, soon gone, T H E L O O K I N G G L A S S 2 7 5 Leaving, to catch thy plaintive soul soon gone. T H E R I C H B E G G A R . A Poem. Mary Effie Lee Newsome 2 8 0 THE MAY CRISIS O Negro slaves, dark-purple ripened plums, The cover will be Albert Smith's fine painting of Rene Maran. T h e special articles will be on Squeezed, and bursting in the pine-wood air, the late Bert Williams and on the leaders o f N e g r o fraternities. Passing, before they stripped the old tree bare One plum was saved for me, one seed becomes FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF A YEAR F O R E I G N S U B S C R I P T I O N T W E N T Y - F I V E C E N T S E X T R A An everlasting song, a singing tree, R F N F W A L S • The date o£ expiration of eack subscription is printed on the wrapper. When the lubscription is due, a blue renewal blank is enclosed. Carrolling softly souls of slavery, • f T T A N G E O F A D D R E S S * The address of a subscriber can be changed as often as desired. All that they were, and that they are to me,— In ordering a change of address, both the old and the new address must be given. Two weeks' notice is required. Carrolling softly souls of slavery. M A N U S C R I P T S and drawings relating to colored people are desired. They must be accom panied by return postage. If found unavailable they will be returned. -p^torerl as second class matter November 2, 1910, at the post office at N e w York, N e w Y o r k , under the A c t of March 3, 1879. Crisis 23, no. 6 (April 1922): 243, 261. Modernist Journals Project.