Cane
Published on 9. February 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-87140-151-9 (ISBN)
Description
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
127 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87140-151-9 (9780871401519)
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Person
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 the writing of Cane.