Title
Teaching the Pastoral and Race in Jean Toomer, Ernest Hemingway, and Ernest Gaines
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Compares Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River,” Toomer’s “Avey,” and Gaines’s “The Sky Is Gray,” guiding students to a fuller understanding of their interconnectedness and modernist aesthetic. While Nick experiences happiness in the bucolic setting of northern Michigan, with its understated sense of racial otherness, the protagonist of Gaines’s and Toomer’s stories must confront the racism and oppression of their urban environments.
Published in
Date
2018
Pages
114-122
COinS
Citation
Holcomb, Gary Edward, ed. Teaching Hemingway and Race. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2018.