SOURCE: “To ‘Flash White Light from Ebony’: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer's Cane,” in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 1-19.
In the following essay, Kodat delineates the two camps of Toomer criticism and asserts that the “great strength of Cane lies in Toomer's risky decision to represent racial and gender oppression through modernist literary technique.”
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