Cane - Paperback
by Jean Toomer
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd (Afterword by), Henry Louis Gates (Afterword by)Publish date:6/13/2011Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780871402103ISBN-10:871402106UPC:9780871402103Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, SouthernSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC482Y0QZ3
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780871402103ISBN-10:871402106UPC:9780871402103Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, SouthernSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC482Y0QZ3
Toomer, Jean: - 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...
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