... order to bring black writers and white publishers together. The development of interracial friendship between writers took place. Probably the best example for this affection is the African-American writer Jean Toomer and his white colleague Waldo Frank. They demonstrated their friendship by going on a literary expedition to the South for discovering black costumes and traditions ... . Toomer`s Cane and Frank`s Holiday were published by the white author Horace Liveright on the same date and gave an account of their experiences from this journey. However, the new cultural ... able to ga...

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... (Collier, 1985). Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. Claude McKay's volume of poetry, Harlem Shadow (1922), Jean Toomer's experimental novel combination of poetry and prose, Cane (1923), and Jessie Fauset's novel about a middleclass black woman, There Is Confusion (1924) were among the first books written by Blacks to ... ...

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