Cane

Cane

by Jean Toomer
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Publication Date: 09/04/2019

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A lyrical “groundbreaking work” of the Harlem Renaissance, praised by writers from Langston Hughes to Maya Angelou and Alice Walker (The Washington Post).


“It would be good to hear their songs . . . reapers of the sweet-stalked cane, cutters of the corn . . . even though their throats cracked, and the strangeness of their voices deafened me.” —“Harvest Song,” Jean Toomer


Published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane has long been recognized as a pioneering work in African American literature. Employing a modernist, nontraditional structure of thematically linked prose vignettes, poems, and dialogue presented in evocative, often mournful lyrical tones, Toomer created a unique impressionistic mosaic of the inner lives of African Americans in the early twentieth century, encompassing the rural South and the urban North. Deeply felt and beautifully expressed, Toomer’s masterpiece continues to resonate almost a century after it was written.


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ISBN:
9781504058391
9781504058391
Category:
Historical fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-04-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Open Road Media
Jean Toomer

A native of Washington, D.C., Jean Toomer (1894–1967) took a four-month teaching job in Georgia in 1921.

Here the poet, playwright, and novelist reconnected with his African-American roots to create his best-known work, Cane, a book of prose poetry inspired by the people and landscapes of the Deep South.

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