SOURCE: “Jean Toomer's ‘Box Seat’: The Possibility for ‘Constructive Crisises,’” in Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring, 1979, pp. 7-12.
In the following essay, Schultz contends that not only is “Box Seat” integral to the thematic, imagistic, and philosophical unity of Cane, but the story has integrity and significance on its own.
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