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Cane (Norton Critical Edition)
Cane - Norton Critical Edition
Author: Jean Toomer, Darwin T. Turner (Editor)
Originally published in 1923, Cane is a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. The growing interest in African-American literature that began in the 1960's led to the rediscovery of earlier African-American writers, one of whom is Jean Toomer, author of Cane. It is an innovative literary work—part dra...  more »

"Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer's correspondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, and Allen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright.

Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition of Cane), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgrounds of the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer.

"Criticism", both contemporary and recent, on Cane and Toomer is wide-ranging and includes essays by W. E. B. Du Bois, Gorham B. Munson, Robert Bone, Patricia Watkins, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Nellie Y. McKay, and Darwin T. Turner.   Show more Show less
ISBN-13: 9780393956009
ISBN-10: 0393956008
Publication Date: 12/19/1987
Pages: 246
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
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The Norton Edition of Cane is an excellent introduction to this author who was a writer in the Harlem group of writers in the 1920's. Jean Toomer's vision of a colorblind America is contrasted by his short vignette's of life in the South in the 1920's I recommend this book to any one who is interested in black studies.


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