Cane
Published on 14. April 2020
118 pages
978-1-952438-51-6 (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
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Person
Jean Toomer started his career as a teacher in Sparta, Georgia, before becoming a lecturer and writer. He wrote extensively for the Dial and other magazines, as well as wrote numerous plays. After the downfall of his book Cane (1923), Toomer attended the Gurdjieff Institute in France and became a teacher of meditation. Though he is now known as one of the most prolific authors of the Harlem Renaissance, Toomer-like most famous artists-was not well-known or praised until after his death in 1967.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 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
