"Blood-Burning Moon"

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"Blood-Burning Moon" is a haunting short story by Jean Toomer that explores racial tension, violence, and forbidden love in the American South, collected in his modernist work Cane.

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instanceOf literary work
short story
associatedWithAuthorWork Jean Toomer’s Cane cycle of stories and sketches
author Jean Toomer
centralTheme fear and superstition
forbidden love
interracial relationships
lynching
power and oppression
racial tension
racial violence
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
explores Black–white racial relations in the Jim Crow South
economic inequality
social segregation
firstPublishedIn Cane
genre African-American literature
Southern Gothic
modernist fiction
hasCanonicalStatus frequently studied in American literature courses
includedIn African-American literature anthologies
American short story anthologies
language English
literaryMovement American modernism
Harlem Renaissance
literaryStyle experimental structure
lyrical prose
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableCharacter Bob Stone
Louisa
Tom Burwell
partOf Cane
publicationYear 1923
publisherOfCollection Boni & Liveright
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingLocation Southern United States
surface form: American South
settingPeriod early 20th century
symbol blood
fire
the moon
tone foreboding
haunting
tragic

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Cane containsWork "Blood-Burning Moon"