Cane

by Jean Toomer

Book Overview

First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work--part drama, part poetry, part fiction--powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is published...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871402106
• ISBN13: 9780871402103
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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.