First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
This iconic work of American literature is published with a new afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University, who provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the context of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and examine his shifting claims about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a scientific or biological concept.
| ISBN: | 9780871402103 |
| Publication date: | 10th June 2011 |
| Author: | Jean Toomer |
| Publisher: | Liveright Publishing Corporation an imprint of Liveright |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 245 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Classic fiction: general and literary |
First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
Cane features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary
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Cane was written by Jean Toomer and published by Liveright Publishing Corporation an imprint of Liveright
Cane has 245 pages
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