Caña

Admirado de forma unánime por críticos, editores y autores, Jean Toomer (1894-1967) fue saludado como la gran promesa del renacimiento cultural que tuvo como escenario el Harlem de la década de 1920. El carácter experimental de Caña (1923), escrita en «una prosa memorable que nada tiene que envidiar a la poesía» (Bruce Kellner), desafía las categorías convencionales y resulta tan difícil de interpretar como el propio Toomer. «Su conocimiento del linaje familiar era tan minucioso como el de un noble español ―escribe David Levering Lewis―. No hay duda de que sus ancestros fueron en parte africanos. Sin embargo, fuese lo que fuese verdaderamente Toomer (por su apariencia física, blanco; por su genealogía, mestizo), Caña resultó posible gracias a que supo resolver su dualidad racial por el simple procedimiento de afirmarla». Maribel Cruzado Soria firma la traducción, primera que se realiza del inglés a cualquier otra lengua, de una obra que discurre por el filo de la tragedia racial con turbadora belleza.

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Jean ToomerAmerican poet and novelist (1894–1967)

Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. Jean resisted being classified as a Negro writer, as he identified as "American". For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff. Later in life he took up Quakerism. Toomer continued to write poetry, short stories and essays. His first wife died soon after the birth of their daughter. After he married again in 1934, Toomer moved with his family from New York to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. There he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) and retired from public life. His papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University.

Caña

by Jean Toomer

Admirado de forma unánime por críticos, editores y autores, Jean Toomer (1894-1967) fue saludado como la gran promesa del renacimiento cultural que tuvo como escenario el Harlem de la década de 1920. El carácter experimental de Caña (1923), escrita en «una prosa memorable que nada tiene que envidiar a la poesía» (Bruce Kellner), desafía las categorías convencionales y resulta tan difícil de interpretar como el propio Toomer. «Su conocimiento del linaje familiar era tan minucioso como el de un noble español ―escribe David Levering Lewis―. No hay duda de que sus ancestros fueron en parte africanos. Sin embargo, fuese lo que fuese verdaderamente Toomer (por su apariencia física, blanco; por su genealogía, mestizo), Caña resultó posible gracias a que supo resolver su dualidad racial por el simple procedimiento de afirmarla». Maribel Cruzado Soria firma la traducción, primera que se realiza del inglés a cualquier otra lengua, de una obra que discurre por el filo de la tragedia racial con turbadora belleza.

Juvenile NonfictionPeople & Places

RELEASED2014

PUBLISHEREdiciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo

LENGTH285

LANGUAGEES

Jean ToomerAmerican poet and novelist (1894–1967)

Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. Jean resisted being classified as a Negro writer, as he identified as "American". For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff. Later in life he took up Quakerism. Toomer continued to write poetry, short stories and essays. His first wife died soon after the birth of their daughter. After he married again in 1934, Toomer moved with his family from New York to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. There he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) and retired from public life. His papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University.