Cane - by Jean Toomer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African-American literary traditions. "A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing . . . This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds."--Maya Angelou.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's <em>Cane</em> 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 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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)"<br>
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