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Cane (New Edition)
Jean Toomer
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Description for Cane (New Edition)
Paperback. "A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing.. This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds."-Maya Angelou Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liveright
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
208g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871402103
SKU
V9780871402103
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About Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was born in Washington, D.C., the son of educated blacks of Creole stock. Literature was his first love and he regularly contributed avant garde poetry and short stories to such magazines as Dial, Broom, Secession, Double Dealer, and Little Review. After a literary apprenticeship in New York, Toomer taught school in rural Georgia. His experiences there led to ... Read more
Reviews for Cane (New Edition)
"I love [Cane] passionately; could not possibly exist without it." Alice Walker "This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." Maya Angelou