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...

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Published in:	Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 149 - 181
Main Author:	Hawkins, Stephanie L.
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Texas Press Summer2004
Subjects:	Blue Meridian, The (Book) Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 Miscegenation in literature Mysticism in literature Cognition in literature Racism in literature
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