{"id":896,"date":"2020-03-04T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/?p=896"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:09:35","slug":"micaela-and-drew-on-jean-toomers-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/2020\/03\/04\/micaela-and-drew-on-jean-toomers-cane\/","title":{"rendered":"Micaela and Drew on Jean Toomer’s *Cane*"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his analysis of Cane<\/em>, William Ramsey fixates on the significance of Toomer\u2019s dual perspective on the South and how that affects the deep southern religion and culture visualized in Cane<\/em>. Ramsey discusses that Toomer is both an outsider and an insider when it comes to the South; he possesses familial roots within southern states like Georgia and Louisiana. So, despite spending little of his life living there, he is not a stranger to the \u201cBlack South.\u201d Ramsey pinpoints Toomer\u2019s dual-perspective as the reason for the \u201ctwo Souths\u201d presented in Cane: the \u201ctemporal\u201d South and the \u201ceternal\u201d South. Ramsey acknowledges that Toomer\u2019s position is unique and significant to the reading of Cane<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ramsey highlights the points Toomer makes about religion in the Black South. He argues that Toomer aligned himself with this community for their rejection of the \u201cspiritual vacuity of modernism,\u201d which Toomer found to be stifling compared to the transcendent southern Black folk culture. Toomer believed the \u201ctemporal\u201d South was the history of oppression and stagnation while the \u201ceternal\u201d South was the everlasting culture that ascended past oppressive social mores. Ramsey writes about how Toomer admired the black southern communities for embodying this \u201ceternal\u201d South and resisting oppression while remaining full of life. On the other hand, Ramsey notes that Toomer did take issue with the black church which he believed was corrupted by white theology and was leading those in the community to repress themselves.<\/p>\n

Ramsey, William M. “Jean Toomer’s eternal South.” The Southern Literary Journal <\/em>36, no. 1 (2003): 74-89. Gale Literature Resource Center (accessed February 28, 2020). https:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/doc\/A111982124\/GLS?u=vic_uor&sid=GLS&xid=607670aa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his analysis of Cane, William Ramsey fixates on the significance of Toomer\u2019s dual perspective on the South and how that affects the deep southern religion and culture visualized in Cane. Ramsey discusses that Toomer is both an outsider and an insider when it comes to the South; he possesses familial roots within southern states […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}