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Title: Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity.(Book review)
Author: Mark Whalan
Publication: MELUS (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31Issue: 1Page: 159(3)

Article Type: Book review

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I was not more than ten years old when I first heard mention of the
Quakers. The grown-ups of my family were talking among themselves,
speaking of an uncle of mine who lived in Philadelphia and operated a
pharmacy near the university. I had never seen this uncle and was
curious about him, so my ears were open. Presently a reference to the
Quakers caught my attention. I wanted to know who the Quakers were. What
was told me then I have remembered ever since. The Quakers, I was told,
are people who wait for the spirit to move them.

A picture formed in my mind. Many a time I had seen my grandmother
sitting quietly, an aura of peace around her as she sewed or crocheted
or did her beautiful embroidery work. So I pictured older people, most
of them with white hair like my grandparents, all with kindly faces,
gathered in silent assembly, heads bent slightly forward, waiting to be
moved. It never occurred to me that young people, boys and girls of my
age and even younger, might be present and participating.

As the word "spirit" meant nothing definite to me, I could have no idea
of just what would move the Quakers, but I had a sense that it would be
something within them, perhaps like the stirrings that sometimes moved
me, and I may have had a vague notion that this something within them
was somehow related to what people called God. I never thought to ask
what the Quakers might do after they were moved.
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This digital document is an article from MELUS, published by The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States on March 22, 2008. The length of the article is 10334 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "A small man in big spaces": the new negro, the mestizo, and Jean Toomer's southwestern writing.(Critical essay)
Author: Emily Lutenski
Publication: MELUS (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2008
Publisher: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States
Volume: 33Issue: 1Page: 11(22)

Article Type: Critical essay

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