{"product_id":"race-manhood-and-modernism-in-mark-whalan-9781621903147","title":"Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America: The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer","description":"Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America offers the first extended comparison between American writers Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) and Jean Toomer (1894-1967), examining their engagement with the ideas of \"Young American\" writers and critics such as Van Wyck Brooks, Paul Rosenfeld, and Waldo Frank. This distinctively modernist school was developing unique visions of how race, gender, and region would be transformed as America entered an age of mass consumerism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Focusing on Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919), and Toomer's Cane (1923), Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America brings Anderson and Toomer together in a way that allows for a thorough historical and social contextualization that is often missing from assessments of these two literary talents and of modernism as a whole. The book suggests how the gay subcultures of Chicago and the traumatic events of the Great War provoked Anderson's anxieties over the future of male gender identity, anxieties that are reflected in Winesburg, Ohio. Mark Whalan discusses Anderson's primitivistic attraction to African American communities and his ambivalent attitudes toward race, attitudes that were embedded in the changing cultural and gendered landscape of mass mechanical production. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book next examines how Toomer aimed to broaden the racial basis of American cultural nationalism, often inspired by the same cultural critics who had influenced Anderson. He rejected the ethnographically based model of tapping the \"buried cultures\" of ethnic minorities developed by his mentor, Waldo Frank, and also parted with the \"folk\" aesthetic endorsed by intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. Instead, Toomer'' monumental Cane turned to discourses of physical culture, machine technology, and illegitimacy as ways of conceiving of a new type of manhood that refashioned commonplace notions of racial identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Taken together, these discussions provide a fresh, interdisciplinary appraisal of the importance of race to \"Young America,\" suggest provocative new directions for scholarship, and give new insight into some of the most crucial texts of U.S. interracial modernism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mark Whalan is a senior lecturer in American literature and culture at the University of Exeter. He is the editor of The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924, and his articles have appeared in the Journal of American Studies, Modernism\/Modernity, Studies in American Fiction, and Modern Fiction Studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Whalan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621903141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621903147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.60h x 1.20w x 0.20d","brand":"Mark Whalan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088656838911,"sku":"9781621903147","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14c6692b-c546-4a7f-9201-54c340020bac.jpg?v=1769105949","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-manhood-and-modernism-in-mark-whalan-9781621903147","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}