Building the "Blue" Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer's "The Blue Meridian"
Examines how the language of evolutionary science and Gurdjieffian mysticism in “The Blue Meridian,” by Jean Toomer fuse to create a language of cognition. Ways in which Toomer’s early training and reading in the biological sciences remained influential throughout his writing career; Toomer’s concep...
| Publicado en: | Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 149 - 181 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Texas Press
Summer2004
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| Sumario: | Examines how the language of evolutionary science and Gurdjieffian mysticism in “The Blue Meridian,” by Jean Toomer fuse to create a language of cognition. Ways in which Toomer’s early training and reading in the biological sciences remained influential throughout his writing career; Toomer’s concept of the “blue” race; Impact of the pervasiveness of racialist assumptions drawn from evolutionary biology in America; Toomer’s use of Darwinian evolutionary logic as the basis for his modernism. |
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