Cane
A Norton Critical Edition
3rd Edition
Published on 1. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-1-324-08805-9 (ISBN)
Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).
A revised and expanded introduction, featuring new archival discoveries, and annotations by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Jesse McCarthy.
Thirteen illustrations related to Toomer's life, which are new to the Third Edition, and the map of Sparta, Georgia, that accompanies the text.
Thirty-five background selections that feature additional writings by Toomer and extensive excerpts from his personal correspondence.
Twenty-five critical responses-nine of which are new to the Third Edition-from contemporary and modern critics examining important themes in the work. A chronology of Toomer's life and a selected bibliography.
The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).
A revised and expanded introduction, featuring new archival discoveries, and annotations by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Jesse McCarthy.
Thirteen illustrations related to Toomer's life, which are new to the Third Edition, and the map of Sparta, Georgia, that accompanies the text.
Thirty-five background selections that feature additional writings by Toomer and extensive excerpts from his personal correspondence.
Twenty-five critical responses-nine of which are new to the Third Edition-from contemporary and modern critics examining important themes in the work. A chronology of Toomer's life and a selected bibliography.
More details
Series
Edition
Third Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
441 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-08805-9 (9781324088059)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
01/2011
2nd Edition
WW Norton & Co
€37.32
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Persons
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. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com. Jesse McCarthy is Assistant Professor in the departments of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He has published articles and reviews in the journals transposition, NOVEL, and African American Review and contributed chapters to Richard Wright in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Ralph Ellison in Context (forthcoming) as well as a new introduction for Vincent O. Carter's long out-of-print memoir The Bern Book (Dalkey Archive, 2020). He is also the author of Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? a collection of essays (Liveright, 2021) and a novel, The Fugitivities (Melville House, 2021).