Cane
A Novel
Published on 4. March 2019
118 pages
978-1-5154-3944-8 (ISBN)
Description
'Cane' explores spiritual and emotional frustration, failure of basic communication between individuals, and repression of natural energies. It reveals the chaos of contemporary black American life and calls for a spiritual awakening. A land mark novel that changed the way America looked at black writers.
I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it. - Alice Walker
This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds. - Maya Angelou
[Toomer avoided] the pitfalls of propaganda and moralizing on the one hand and the snares of a false and hollow race pride on the other hand. - Montgomery Gregory
I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it. - Alice Walker
This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds. - Maya Angelou
[Toomer avoided] the pitfalls of propaganda and moralizing on the one hand and the snares of a false and hollow race pride on the other hand. - Montgomery Gregory
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Content
- Intro
- Karintha
- Reapers
- November Cotton Flower
- Becky
- Face
- Cotton Song
- Carma
- Song of the Son
- Georgia Dusk
- Fern
- Nullo
- Evening Song
- Esther
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Conversion
- Portrait in Georgia
- Blood-Burning Moon
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Seventh Street
- Rhobert
- Avey
- Beehive
- Storm Ending
- Theater
- Her Lips Are Copper Wire
- Calling Jesus
- Box Seat
- 1
- 2
- Prayer
- Harvest Song
- Bona and Paul
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Kabnis
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
