Jean Toomer’s Magazine Auras

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Published: Jan 13, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35537
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Jean Toomer, George Bornstein, Modernism, Textual Aura, Magazine Publishing
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For George Bornstein (August 25, 1941– February 2, 2021)
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John K. Young
Marshall University

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Drawing on George Bornstein’s idea of a “textual aura”, this essay proposes a distinct instantiation of this effect arising from the particular circumstances of periodical publication and reception, a magazine aura. Jean Toomer’s publications in a range of modernist magazines illustrate the manifestations of a magazine aura, with particular attention to Toomer’s appearances in Broom and The Little Review.

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John K. Young, Marshall University

John K. Young is Professor of English at Marshall University, where he studies and teaches 20th- and 21st-century American, British, and Anglophone literatures, focusing especially on the social dimensions of textual scholarship. His essay in this issue draws from his forthcoming The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer and American Magazine Modernism. Young has written Black Writers, White Publishers (2006) and How to Revise a True War Story (2017), and co-edited, with George Hutchinson, Publishing Blackness (2013); with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall and Susan Starr Richards, A Careful Hunger: Poems, by Judy Young (2019); and, with Jeehyun Lim, a forthcoming volume on 20th- and 21st-century U.S. short fiction for the MLA’s Options for Teaching Series. From 2010-21, he served as executive director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

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