George Hutchinson | The New York Review of Books

George Hutchinson

George Hutchinson is a Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture at Cornell University. He is the author of In Search of Nella Larsen, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, and Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s. Most recently he brought to light Anita Thompson Reynolds’ memoir, American Cocktail: A ‘Colored Girl’ in the World. He also edited The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. (December 2018)

Jean Toomer’s ‘Cane’ and the Ambiguity of Identity

Ambiguity of identity and a strong intuition of the arbitrary nature of social labels came early to Jean Toomer.

December 28, 2018