{"id":898,"date":"2020-03-04T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/?p=898"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:11:29","slug":"maky-and-johanna-blood-burning-moon-from-toomers-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/2020\/03\/04\/maky-and-johanna-blood-burning-moon-from-toomers-cane\/","title":{"rendered":"Maky and Johanna, &#8220;Blood Burning Moon&#8221; from Toomer&#8217;s *Cane*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the essay <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myth and Narrative Fiction in Cane: \u201cBlood-Burning Moon\u201d, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alain Solard uses the various settings and motivations of the characters to examine whether Toomer uses the story to initiate protest or if the motif is utilized to depict the passions of the \u201csouthern collective soul\u201d. Solard uses the first part of the essay to delve into the heightened interplay of visual and auditory contrasts, especially Black folk symbols like the \u201cBlood Burning Moon\u201d which symbolizes impending doom and evil. Another element of Black folk tradition that Toomer draws on, according to Solard, is the incantation that is rooted in the repetition of slow and drawn out sounds, words, and rhythms that interact with each other to create a soulful effect. Solard emphasizes how the \u201cBlood-Burning Moon\u201d is a tale of Southern Blacks with a vernacular reminiscent of the blues to symbolize the \u201cinescapable tragedy of Negroes in America\u201d. Solard argues that the white character that Toomer uses (Bob Stone) represents an intersection between folklore and history because his actions reflect his \u201cnostalgia for a vanished supremacy and his own yearning for a fusion with blackness\u201d, which is portrayed through his attraction to Louisa. Overall, the essay draws on the duality of the humanity, the race, the natural, and the mythical elements of \u201cBlood-Burning Moon\u201d to show contrasting elements of awareness for racism, whilst also romanticizing the elements of Black folklore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citation:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solard, Alain. &#8220;Myth and Narrative Fiction in Cane: &#8220;Blood-Burning Moon&#8221;.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Callaloo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, no. 25<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1985): 551-62. Accessed February 27, 2020. doi:10.2307\/2930826.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the essay Myth and Narrative Fiction in Cane: \u201cBlood-Burning Moon\u201d, Alain Solard uses the various settings and motivations of the characters to examine whether Toomer uses the story to initiate protest or if the motif is utilized to depict the passions of the \u201csouthern collective soul\u201d. Solard uses the first part of the essay [&hellip;]<\/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-898","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\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/humanitiesfellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}