Cane

By: Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd (Afterword by), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Afterword by)

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Paperback | 15 July 2011 | Edition Number 1

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256 Pages

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20.9 x 14.0 x 1.5

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Jean Toomer's Harlem Renaissance classic offers an iconic look at the hardship and hope of black life in the South in the early 20th century. A new afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University and Rudolph P. Byrd of Emory University not only discusses the work's reception and context, but also gives revelatory biographical insights about Toomer's development as a writer and his mixed racial identity - although he self-identified as black early in his life, he would toy with his racial classification throughout his later life.

Inspired by the rural Georgia landscape, Cane is an avant-garde and experimental work that combines poetry and prose to powerfully evoke the full spectrum of Southern life. It depicts married couples, deadly reaping machines, and blooming cotton with equal vividness. As an iconic text in the history of both American Modernism and African American literature, Cane inspired writers from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and has become a favorite among those interested in African American history as well as experimental American literature.

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"By far the most impressive product of the Negro Renaissance, Cane ranks with Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as a measure of the Negro novelist's highest achievement. Jean Toomer belongs to that first rank of writers who use words almost as a plastic medium, shaping new meanings from an original and highly personal style." -- Robert A. Bone, The Negro Novel in America (1965)

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