Cane (New Edition)
aA breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readersa and writersa desks and in their minds.aaMaya Angelou First published in 1923, Jean Toomeras Cane is an innovative literary workapart drama, part poetry, part fictionapowerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomeras 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.. This book should be on all readersa and writersa desks and in their minds.aaMaya Angelou First published in 1923, Jean Toomeras Cane is an innovative literary workapart drama, part poetry, part fictionapowerfully evoking ...
| Title | : | Cane (New Edition) |
| Author | : | Jean Toomer |
| Publisher | : | W. W. Norton & Company - 2011-06-13 |
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