The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's <i>Cane</i>

Edmunds, Susan

doi:10.1215/00029831-75-1-141

American Literature

2003

DOI: 10.1215/00029831-75-1-141

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The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane

Susan Edmunds¹

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Sex under Necropolitics: Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and Black Enfleshment

Kahan¹,

Kishi²

2019

J. Am. Stud.

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Though Jean Toomer'sCane(1923) is one of the best-known texts of the Harlem Renaissance, it has rarely been discussed with the text alongside which it was initially imagined: Waldo Frank'sHoliday(1923). These works were inspired by a joint trip to Spartanburg, South Carolina and were conceptualized as a shared project, what the authors termed “Holiday + Cane.” This essay tracks their coproduction with particular attention to their parallax vision of lynching to theorize what we call, building on Achille Mbembe's work, “sex under necropolitics.” This dispensation does not take shape within a privatized notion of sexuality, but instead is “ungendered” and unindividuated in the ways that Hortense Spillers has described through the notion of the flesh. We take up her work to suggest that black bodily practices and corporeal intimacies are governed by a regime other than sexuality. In this essay, we map the contours of this regime and its effects on both sides of the color line. Our new cartography promises to reconfigure understandings of the sexuality of Toomer and Frank and of the Harlem Renaissance, and to clarify the relationship between (white) queer theory and queer-of-color critique.

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Sex under Necropolitics: Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and Black Enfleshment

Kahan¹,

Kishi²

2019

J. Am. Stud.

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A “Synchronous but More Subtle Migration”: Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane

Stasi¹

2009

Twentieth-Century Literature

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Mary Turner’s Blues

Armstrong¹

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The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Sex under Necropolitics: Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and Black Enfleshment

Sex under Necropolitics: Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and Black Enfleshment

A “Synchronous but More Subtle Migration”: Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane

Mary Turner’s Blues

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