Cane

by Jean Toomer

Book Overview

"Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer's correspondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, and Allen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright.

Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition of Cane), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgrounds of the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer.

"Criticism", both contemporary and recent,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393956008
• ISBN13: 9780393956009
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

A wonderful little book with great insight

This is perhaps one of my favorite works of literature I've ever read. This piece of literature uses poetry and short stories to portray the vast experiences of Afican-Americans in America. This novel (of sorts) opens your eyes and does so subtly and beautifully through various characters and the experiences they go through or fight against. Although written over fify years ago, Toomer's work relates well to the problems/concerns of race in America today. I feel this should be a required work in studying Modern American Literature and the African-American Experience. If there is a firm "canon" ever established, this should be included.